From: Richard Dawe 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 Organization: Customer of Energis Squared Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3A3FC60C.4AA43E9@bigfoot.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-69.seaborgium.dialup.pol.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news7.svr.pol.co.uk 977261068 5703 62.136.73.69 (19 Dec 2000 21:24:28 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Dec 2000 21:24:28 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse AT theplanet DOT net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.17 i586) X-Accept-Language: de,fr To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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 =] -- Richard Dawe [ mailto:richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com | http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ ]