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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 18:46:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: blesson paul <blessonpaul@msn.com>
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Subject: Re: /dev/zero
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, blesson paul wrote:

> 		I need some more information about /dev/zero. I need to replace the device 
> driver of /dev/zero(I do not know whether I can name the program controlling 
> the /dev/zero as device driver). How to do the job. If I cannot replace the 
> device driver of /dev/zero, how to create a new charecter device and load my 
> device driver.

  I have to ask, WHY? Is this because you want to return a value other
than zero, to to improve the performance of /dev/zero, or just to write a
driver (/dev/one could be used ;-).

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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