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From: pdbain@bnr-vpa.UUCP (Peter Bain)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: fault-tolerant /dev/null
Message-ID: <73@bnr-vpa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 16:30:36 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  3 16:30:36 1985
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References: <145@ides.UUCP> <8700225@uiucdcsb>
Reply-To: pdbain@bnr-vpa.UUCP (Peter Bain)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <8700225@uiucdcsb> robison@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU writes:
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>There has been a recent flurry of /dev/null research, for example:
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>     * fault-tolerant /dev/null

This may be more useful than it may at first appear. At one point,
the real /dev/null disappeared from our file system.  Then people
started sending things to /dev/null, causing the ever-obedient file
system to CREATE A FILE CALLED /dev/null. Many megabytes later....
	-peter "IBM  - solving tomorrow's problems with yesterday's
	technology" bain