[NTLUG:Discuss] Stupid Question

[Steve Baker]

Greg Edwards wrote:

> This is the famous *nix bit bucket.  Its the non existant device that
> you can send any output too and it'll simply disappear:)

/dev/null is *not* non-existant - it most definitely exists and there
is a proper kernel device driver for it.  The term 'bit bucket' is
used more widely for places where bits go to die - /dev/null is
only one of them.

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