On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 10:50:08AM -0500, Dave Voutila wrote: > > Crystal Kolipe <kolip...@exoticsilicon.com> writes: > > > We currently don't implement the /dev/full device, which is present in > > NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux. > > > > For those who haven't heard of it, it's basically the same as /dev/zero, but > > writes to it always return ENOSPC. > > > > The lack of /dev/full on OpenBSD has previously caused minor issues with > > third party software, for example: > > > > https://bugs.python.org/issue21934 > > > > Is this really a problem with ports? That Python issue was related to a > Python 2.7 unit test and from 2014.
I don't think it's a particular problem with ports, although I don't work in the ports tree enough to give a reliable answer to that question. I still think it's useful, though.
