Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 09:37:57 -0800 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>, "Nicpon, John" <John.Nicpon@SouthTrust.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix Philosophers Please! Message-ID: <200111011737.MAA04972@repulse.cnchost.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:07:26 PST." <3BE0842E.A2B10275@mindspring.com>
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> > Answer 2. All the data goes into another dimension, and comes out of
> > /dev/random.
> That would be so funny... I cat /dev/random, and I get your
> files, as you delete them. 8-).
Of course you do, it is just that the bytes are in random order.
But I see that you are thinking of /dev/null as a bitbucket
for files. Hmm... that means we can get rid of the unlink()
given an atomic rename() syscall.
mv file1 file2 dir1 et cetera et cetera et cetera /dev/null
Neat!
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