Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > Why would I use one over the other ? /dev/gzero simulates a disk drive, /dev/zero is a regular amorphous character device. It's sometimes useful to have a disk-drive-like device that can accept anything (the fabled write-only media!), mostly for development. Also, gzero can be configured to "be made of" not only zeroes (\0) but any other byte value, so it can be useful if you need "something like /dev/zero" but not with actual ASCII 0 bytes.
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