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From: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: some PRs
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On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 08:15:54PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 10:08:48PM +0200, Nicolas Souchu wrote:
> > Patchs like:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=68961
> 
> What in the world is this patch (ie, /dev/full) for??
> I just don't see the point in /dev/full.  Could you please give some good
> examples of its use?  Also what "Un*x OSes" besides Linux has this?

I'll try to figure out the best alternative, given all your comments.

The Linux emulation seems a good starting point.

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