From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 31 13:25:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.stcorp.com (stasc53.stcorp.com [207.203.33.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 404F637B403 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:25:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from msc-002.msg.stcorp.com ([10.10.40.162]) by mail1.stcorp.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.2966); Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:21:35 -0600 Received: from msm-001.msg.stcorp.com ([10.10.40.140]) by msc-002.msg.stcorp.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.2966); Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:25:47 -0600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4712.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: Unix Philosophers Please! Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:25:46 -0600 Message-ID: <2AACFCDB6086274CA42D44085EF1BAA2293FF4@msm-001.msg.stcorp.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Unix Philosophers Please! Thread-Index: AcFiUD+AOdeYPl+vRpG7XjInU44j2gAAjGyA From: "Nicpon, John" To: "Brian Reichert" Cc: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Oct 2001 21:25:47.0315 (UTC) FILETIME=[9B2A1030:01C16252] 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 Where does data go when it dies? -----Original Message----- From: Brian Reichert [mailto:reichert@numachi.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 3:08 PM To: Nicpon, John Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix Philosophers Please! 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? --=20 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