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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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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