From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 31 13:36:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp014.mail.yahoo.com (smtp014.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C1FE37B401 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:36:57 -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 21:36:56 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3BE06EF8.2080207@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:36:56 -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: Brian Reichert , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix Philosophers Please! References: <2AACFCDB6086274CA42D44085EF1BAA2293FF4@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 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: > 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? > > 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