/dev/full - Wikipedia
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No, that’s not a typo.

  • schmonie@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 years ago

    The bottom of that Wikipedia page has a reference to something else that sounded interesting called “/dev/mordor” in some Plan 9 OS fork called 9front. Sent me down a really interesting rabbit hole http://9front.org/

  • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    My knowledge about useful/funny /dev files grows by the day…

    I now know of: random & urandom, null, zero and now full…

    Bouta make an infinity gauntlet meme of them

    • Lambda@lemmy.ca
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      2 years ago

      Wait until you learn about the shell specific /dev “files” like /dev/udp and /dev/tcp (which can send/recv IP traffic as if from a file)!