From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 78940 invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2017 09:51:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact elfutils-devel-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: Sender: elfutils-devel-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 78924 invoked by uid 89); 24 Jul 2017 09:51:38 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Checked: by ClamAV 0.99.2 on sourceware.org X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,UNSUBSCRIBE_BODY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*M:stream, Hx-languages-length:225, H*r:sk:ADH-AES X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,UNSUBSCRIBE_BODY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on sourceware.org X-Spam-Level: X-HELO: gnu.wildebeest.org Received: from wildebeest.demon.nl (HELO gnu.wildebeest.org) (212.238.236.112) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 09:51:38 +0000 Received: from stream.wildebeest.org (ip4da134f7.direct-adsl.nl [77.161.52.247]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ADH-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gnu.wildebeest.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1E02D302748B; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 11:51:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: by stream.wildebeest.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D0201105A87; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 11:51:49 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 09:51:00 -0000 From: Mark Wielaard To: Ulf Hermann Cc: elfutils-devel@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Write to /dev/null rather than /dev/zero Message-ID: <20170724095149.GB8002@stream> References: <15fdcbac-f271-9e8e-0115-1668bf704794@qt.io> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15fdcbac-f271-9e8e-0115-1668bf704794@qt.io> User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.3 (2017-05-23) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-q3/txt/msg00037.txt.bz2 On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 05:27:47PM +0200, Ulf Hermann wrote: > /dev/zero is meant for reading zeroes. /dev/null is for writing into > nirvana. Thanks, applied to master.