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Message-ID: <47B430A4.2010000@trashmail.net>
Date:	Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:14:28 +0100
From:	Mika Lawando <rzryyvzy@...shmail.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
CC:	assarix@...dora.be
Subject: Re: Is there a

Tom Van Looy schrieb:
> You can create a symlink to /dev/null and name it whatever you want?
>
> $ ln -s /dev/null tempfile
> $ echo blablabla > tempfile
> $ wc tempfile
> 0 tempfile
>   
The problem is, what do you do if the filename would be:
tempfile.<TIMESTAMP>

where <TIMESTAMP> is replaced by the unix timestamp. I mean how do you 
redirect to /dev/null if you don't know in advance the filename your 
application will create.

Its true the quick way would be to write a filesystem in Perl with fuse. 
But it would be better to implement this natively in the kernel, because 
there is a loss of performance in fuse between the communication of the 
fuse client and the fuser server (it uses a socket mechanism).

-- 
Best regards,
Mika Lawando

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