Re: Reading empty file (was: Re: /dev/full)

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (qrczak@knm.org.pl)
Wed, 23 Dec 1998 23:09:52 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, [iso-8859-1] Johnny Teveßen wrote:

> > Reading from /dev/null gives immediate EOF. Reading from /dev/full
> > gives the same results as reading from /dev/zero.
>
> ummh, he's right. What did I do in my scripts? :-(

Huh?! Reading from /dev/full gives the same result as reading from
/dev/null, that is, immediate EOF. At least on 2.0.36.

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