On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 08:05 AM, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
Except only half the bits are recycled to /dev/zero, and most of the time it's very hard to get the original data back out of /dev/random (some exceptions if you pipe the complete works of shakespeare to /dev/null in an infinite universe).On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:57:35AM -0500, Steven Champeon wrote:/dev/null is more like a black hole than a trash can. Use it with some caution - nothing comes out the other end.Actually I like to think of the data going into /dev/null as being recycled and coming out as /dev/zero and /dev/random. ;)
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