[Gloucs] USB flash drive testing tools

Glyn Davies glynd at walmore.com
Thu Jun 10 22:06:24 UTC 2010


On 10 June 2010 22:50, Keith Edmunds <kae at midnighthax.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:22:41 +0100, nic at nixul.co.uk said:
>
>> /dev/zero is null. eg: nothing written.
>
> Sorry, but you're mistaken. /dev/zero will provide an endless stream of
> nulls, so zeros would be written.
>
> Keith

Oooh, I'll take a risk here and wander into the realm of techie pendantry.

I don't view /dev/zero is a stream of nulls but a stream of zeros. To
me, null is no value whereas zero is, errr, zero. I guess /dev/null
could give a stream of nulls :)

I'm aware of /dev/random and /dev/urandom but why isn't there a /dev/one?

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Best Regards
Glyn Davies



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