Date:	Tue, 26 Dec 2000 17:52:51 -0500
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> BTW there's a device call /dev/full on Linux, which returns zeroes when
> read, but returns ENOSPC when written to. This could easily be added to
> the /dev/zero framework. If there are any good uses for /dev/full, then
> I'll add this. Otherwise I'll just add a note to the /dev/zero sources.

I can see this being useful for testing handling of disk full errors.

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