Some unlikely 2021 predictions

Posted Jan 7, 2021 1:43 UTC (Thu) by hisdad (subscriber, #5375)
In reply to: Some unlikely 2021 predictions by jedix
Parent article: Some unlikely 2021 predictions

and the kernel will implement /dev/uzero
that doesn't block when it runs out of zeros.
..

Posted Jan 7, 2021 8:26 UTC (Thu) by edeloget (subscriber, #88392) [Link] (1 responses)

> and the kernel will implement /dev/uzero
> that doesn't block when it runs out of zeros.
> ..

I would oppose such a change, as it seems it would break my own workflow and it looks like a kernel ABI regression...

Posted Jan 7, 2021 15:10 UTC (Thu) by georgm (subscriber, #19574) [Link]

Maybe there could be a get_zero_bytes() syscall to work-around any issues.