Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 10:54:48 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: An implementation of /dev/zero for DJGPP
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On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, DJ Delorie wrote:

> > This actually raises a more serious problem: how does an application
> > requests that /dev/zero support to be linked in?

That was not an English sentence.  And I'm not even celebrating
Christmas ;-)

> One way is via command line:
> 
> 	gcc -Wl,-u,__use_dev_zero ...
> 
> Or, in main,
> 
> 	__use_dev_zero();

Yes, something like that.

It might be even better if we could have a special header,
<sys/devzero.h>, say, which, if included in a program, would pull in
the /dev/zero support automatically, by some magic.

> I would think that making it the default would be wrong in general.

I agree.