From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 31 13:21: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp012.mail.yahoo.com (smtp012.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8CDC837B403 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:21:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mkc-65-30-96-67.kc.rr.com (HELO yahoo.com) (65.30.96.67) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 31 Oct 2001 21:21:00 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3BE06B3B.3060004@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:20:59 -0600 From: Jim Bryant Reply-To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Nicpon, John" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix Philosophers Please! References: <2AACFCDB6086274CA42D44085EF1BAA2293FF3@msm-001.msg.stcorp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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 -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! ----------------------------------------------------- POWER TO THE PEOPLE! ----------------------------------------------------- "Religious fundamentalism is the biggest threat to international security that exists today." United Nations Secretary General B.B.Ghali, 1995 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message