Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:00:19 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: "Nicpon, John" <John.Nicpon@SouthTrust.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix Philosophers Please! Message-ID: <3BE08283.EC81A8ED@math.missouri.edu> References: <2AACFCDB6086274CA42D44085EF1BAA2293FF3@msm-001.msg.stcorp.com>
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> "Nicpon, John" wrote: > > Please specifically define where data goes that is sent to /dev/null Answer 1. Data is not like energy. There is no "conservation of data" law. So the data simply "disappears". Answer 2. All the data goes into another dimension, and comes out of /dev/random. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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