Re: Wanted: Secure-delete utility for Linux

Stephen Landamore (stephenl@arcam.co.uk)
Wed, 23 Dec 1998 10:54:03 +0000

> IMHO the name /dev/one would be a bad idea. Becouse this could mean
> an integer one which is 00000001 for 8-bit, 0000000000000001 for
> 16-bit, and so on.

/dev/zero is a _character_ device which returns 0x00 ad infinitum

so what would we call a device which returned 0xff ad infinitum? ...

/dev/effs of course!

cheers,
stephen

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