Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:35:14 +0000
From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Khai Doan <khai@genius.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to create a fixed length character/block device/file ?
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On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:10:00 -0800
Khai Doan <khai@genius.com> 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.  

Just pipe the output into a program or perl script which does this. You
don't need a device file.
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