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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 3:08 PM > To: Nicpon, John > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
