more unix jokes - /dev/null

[George Kyriazis]

In article <7104 at rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh at rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) writes:
>In article <8572 at smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>>In article <1247 at imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> kyriazis at turing.cs.rpi.edu (George Kyriazis) writes:
>>>	command | vax
>>
>>No, the pipe will constipate since the "vax" command (equivalent to :)
>>does not read its input.
>
>No, the command will abort with SIGPIPE.  the vax command will exit,
>leaving no reader on the pipe.  the first time command goes to write
>to its stdout, a SIGPIPE will result...

I tried that command with 'ls' like 'ls | vax' and it worked; it gave
no output.  Nor it gave any error.



  George Kyriazis
  kyriazis at turing.cs.rpi.edu
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