James Howard wrote:
> We know I ask dumb questions a lot, but this one may not be so dumb. A
> friend of mine was joking about having a device called /dev/foo which
> would be like /dev/zero, except it would spit out the word "foo" over and
> over again. Well, we laughed about it, but today, I implemented
> it. (This was cool since this was the first time I've ever hacked the
> kernel and it worked right...)
[...]
You are right and work is under way to break out this functionality in
a MI driver. Search the mailing list archives for details. A first
attempt can be found at:
http://jeroen.vangelderen.org/FreeBSD/misc_device/
MarkM will soon import a variant of this with his excellent Yarrow
work.
Cheers,
Jeroen
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