/dev/one - why not /dev/repeat?

Steve VanDevender (stevev@efn.org)
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:54:15 -0800 (PST)

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thunder7@xs4all.nl writes:
> Are there advantages in having something like /dev/repeat?
>
> echo -n "echo this" > /dev/repeat
>
> cat /dev/repeat
> echo thisecho thisecho thisecho this

No. Stop it, all of you. There is absolutely no reason to make
a kernel device for this.

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