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dbbolton on June 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: /dev/zero has infinite electrons and /dev/null has...

Tangential question: why does /dev/null have an md5sum but /dev/zero doesn't?

micaeked on June 5, 2012 [–]

i'm guessing because /dev/zero never stops

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