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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:49:37 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: How to create a fixed length character/block device/file ?
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Khai Doan wrote:
> Sorry if this is the wrong list.  I've search google, but have not found 
> solution to my problem.
> 
> I have a long running application which split out lots of debugging 
> information.  I can't redirect the output to a regular file because that 
> file would grow and eat up all the diskspace.  I can't redirect to 
> /dev/null.  What I want is the last 1MB of the output before my 
> application terminated.  So I need to create a special file / device on 
> the system.  Please tell me if  there is an existing device that I can 
> use, or point me in the right direction so that I can role my own device.
> 

Create a FIFO (see "man mkfifo"), and write a program that reads the 
FIFO and retains the information you're interested in.

	-hpa
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