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wanttorun100
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 Posted: 09/02/05 - 10:03 Post subject: windows equivalent of /dev/null
anyone know of one?
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MW
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Posted: 09/02/05 - 10:05 Post subject:
what?
what are you trying to do?
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wanttorun100
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Posted: 09/02/05 - 10:09 Post subject:
I need an empty file to read - IT geek thing
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purple hayes
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Posted: 09/02/05 - 10:11 Post subject:
Take that trashy UNIX talk somewhere else mister.
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wanttorun100
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Posted: 09/02/05 - 10:13 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | Take that trasy UNIX talk somewhere else mister. |
unix is user friendly - it's just picky about who its friend are
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cdnhollywood
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Posted: 09/02/05 - 10:40 Post subject:
Unixphobes.....don't know what's good for them. When's the last time a unix or Linux box gave you the blue screen of death?
As for the /dev/null equivalent, I can't say I know of one. But if you're trying a read from Windows, just use an empty file as the equivalent. The man page for null says that's what it always does.
| Code: | DESCRIPTION
Data written on a null or zero special file is discarded.
Reads from the null special file always return end of file, whereas
reads from zero always return \0 characters.
null and zero are typically created by:
mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3
mknod -m 666 /dev/zero c 1 5
chown root:mem /dev/null /dev/zero
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Can you write code to create this file with the mknod in C?
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