Re: /dev/one - why not /dev/repeat?
Steve VanDevender (stevev@efn.org)
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 15:19:25 -0800 (PST)
Oliver Xymoron writes:
> On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Steve VanDevender wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Actually there is - it's about the simplest read/write device driver you
> can write and is a good introduction.
If someone wants to write that as an exercise for their own
personal edification, fine. There is absolutely no reason to put
it in the distributed kernel. If you want examples to show to
people, we already have /dev/null and /dev/zero.
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