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Date: | Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:39:27 -0500 |
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Dawe on Tue, 16 Jan 2001 21:40:03 +0000) | |
Subject: | Re: /dev/zero & /dev/full FSEXTs |
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According to the linux sources, seeks on /dev/full act like seeks on /dev/null and /dev/zero. They succeed, but the file pointer is always 0.
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