From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 31 13: 7:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.numachi.com (numachi.numachi.com [198.175.254.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 322DF37B403 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:07:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 8738 invoked by uid 3001); 31 Oct 2001 21:07:44 -0000 Received: from natto.numachi.com (198.175.254.216) by numachi.numachi.com with SMTP; 31 Oct 2001 21:07:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 55571 invoked by uid 1001); 31 Oct 2001 21:07:44 -0000 Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:07:44 -0500 From: Brian Reichert To: "Nicpon, John" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix Philosophers Please! Message-ID: <20011031160744.D54613@numachi.com> References: <2AACFCDB6086274CA42D44085EF1BAA2293FF3@msm-001.msg.stcorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <2AACFCDB6086274CA42D44085EF1BAA2293FF3@msm-001.msg.stcorp.com>; from John.Nicpon@SouthTrust.com on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 03:02:59PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 03:02:59PM -0600, Nicpon, John wrote: > Please specifically define where data goes that is sent to /dev/null How 'specific' are you trying to get? /dev/null is a pseudo-device to which writes never fail. What question are you _really_ trying to ask? -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message