John Hasler wrote: > Eric Gaumer writes: >> Which is what I stated... providing /dev/null means you provide nothing >> (i.e. there is no input to receive). > > /dev/null provides nulls. That is not the same as no input. /dev/null or the null device is a virtual device that discards all data written to it, and provides NO data to any process that reads from it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/null In other words it provides nothing not NULL. You are confusing /dev/null with /dev/zero which provides our idea of a NULL value (0x0). -- Eric Gaumer Debian GNU/Linux PPC egaumer@pagecache.org http://egaumer.pagecache.org PGP/GPG Key 0xF15D41E9
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