Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:20:59 -0600 From: Jim Bryant <kc5vdj@yahoo.com> To: "Nicpon, John" <John.Nicpon@SouthTrust.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix Philosophers Please! Message-ID: <3BE06B3B.3060004@yahoo.com> References: <2AACFCDB6086274CA42D44085EF1BAA2293FF3@msm-001.msg.stcorp.com>
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Nicpon, John wrote:
> Please specifically define where data goes that is sent to /dev/null
>
Without actually looking at the code, the generic definition of /dev/null goes something to the effect of:
----
open /dev/null
while(1)
{
select on /dev/null
read byte from /dev/null
}
----
So basically, it just reads what is there, but does absolutely nothing with it.
jim
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