on Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 01:11:14PM -0500, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:08:13AM -0800, Craig Hughes wrote:
> > >Actually I like to think of the data going into /dev/null as being
> > >recycled and coming out as /dev/zero and /dev/random. ;)
> > 
> > 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).
> 
> Exactly, most of the 0's have to goto /dev/zero but based on the usage
> pattern of the two, some get to mix in with the 1s for /dev/random.

Yeah, good point. But the 1's all come out through /bin/true.

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