From:	Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: If dd doesn't support /dev/zero, what _does_ it support?
Date:	Tue, 19 Dec 2000 20:33:16 +0000
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> The /dev/zero device is not part of the emulated devices.  The emulated
> devices are those which have direct DOS equivalents; /dev/zero doesn't.
> 
> Please consider writing up a /dev/zero emulation and submitting it for
> inclusion in a future DJGPP version.

Eli, I don't know if you remember, but we discussed adding /dev/zero and
/dev/null a while back on djgpp-workers. I seem to remember it got lost in
a wider discussion about extending the FSEXT mechanism.

> > And how do I list the supported devices?
> 
> You don't.

Would it be desirable to list them? Should this be part of the extended
FSEXT mechanism? I wonder what extra it would require - stat() support?

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe
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