[Gloucs] USB flash drive testing tools

[Andy Teague]

On 10/06/10 23:06, Glyn Davies wrote:
> 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:
>>
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>>> /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
Solaris used to have /dev/false and /dev/true if memory serves

Andy