[nylug-talk] questions about /dev/null

[Alex Pilosov]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Peter C. Norton wrote:

> Yes, you're right, I'm glossing over the pipe size as part of the
> context switch overhead and the overhead of what I believe to be a
> shortcut to /dev/null behavior on various platforms eg on solaris I
> believe I've seen times that make it appear that dd doesn't appear to
> even bother to read the file, it just returned. However, I can't
> reproduce that behavior now, so now I have to attribute it to sleep
> deprivation memories.
i bet 100$ against a peanut that it doesn't happen on any unix in past 20 
years.

-alex