On 1 May 2014, at 0:18, Ian Lepore <i...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> /dev/full is similar to /dev/zero except it always returns >> ENOSPC when you attempt to write to it. >> > > For some reason this reminded me of something I've been wanting for a > while but never get around to writing... /dev/ones, it's just > like /dev/zero except it returns 0xff bytes. Useful for dd'ing to wipe > out flash-based media.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/79421 :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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