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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

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