/dev/zero

[Darrin Chandler]

Mike wrote:

>That was fun! I read about a file today called /dev/zero that contains an 
>endless stream of zeros. This piqued my interest: "What  does this look 
>like," I thought. So I typed 'jpico /dev/zero' and guess what happened! 
>NOTHING. 
>
>The enter went to the next line but nothing happened. No pretty colors and 
>prompt. 
>
>What use is this device?
>  
>
/dev/zero won't be much fun with jpico. Try /dev/random instead. That 
should make jpico *very* happy. ;)

These things won't be any use to you as a user. As a developer, sys 
admin, etc., it can be handy to have a device give you an endless stream 
of data. For network there's the chargen service.

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