Re: some PRs

From: Sergey Babkin (babkin_at_bellatlantic.net)
Date: 07/27/04

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    Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:49:18 -0400
To: Max Laier <max@love2party.net>

    Max Laier wrote:
    >
    > On Monday 19 July 2004 16:13, M. Warner Losh wrote:

    >
    > The question to me is, do we really want to support (read fertilize) such a
    > stupid thing? Given the chance that once we do support it people will use it.
    > In my opinion it is bad to integrate something into base that we agree is
    > nothing one should ever have created (at least that's my reading of the
    > thread so far). I see no user-pessure for this.

    I'm about a week behind :-) but here are my 2 cents: it's a VERY useful
    device for testing. Not checking the error code of write(), printf()
    and such is a typical bug, so making it easy to detect by switching
    the output to /dev/full (or creating a symlink to it) is a very
    good idea. Like this:

      yourprogram >/dev/full \
         && echo "The program does not check for success of write()"

    -SB
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