Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:36:56 -0600 From: Jim Bryant <kc5vdj@yahoo.com> To: "Nicpon, John" <John.Nicpon@SouthTrust.com> Cc: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix Philosophers Please! Message-ID: <3BE06EF8.2080207@yahoo.com> References: <2AACFCDB6086274CA42D44085EF1BAA2293FF4@msm-001.msg.stcorp.com>
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It's similar to the space/time wormhole that appears in your clothes dryer, and randomly sucks out only one sock out of every pair
into a parallel universe.
Somewhere, there is a universe made up of nothing but odd socks, where they each lead a very happy odd-sockish singular life.
I assume that input to /dev/null goes to a parallel universe consisting entirely of unwanted, wayward data.
Nicpon, John wrote:
> <ethers>Where does data go when it dies?</ethers>
>
> -----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?
>
>
jim
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