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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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