From: Tom Felker <tcfelker@...>
Date: 2003-05-09T05:56:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Platform independent null device access

On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 10:52, Robert Klemme wrote:
> What do people think about adding a method to class IO that returns an IO
> object for the platform dependend null device (NUL on win, /dev/null or
> /dev/zero on unix)?  Alternatively there could be a constant with the
> platform dependent name of this device, if it can always be opened like a
> file on all supported platforms.
> 
> Regards
> 
>     robert

/dev/null is great when the program doesn't have it's own way to discard
data, but in this case, it might be easier and more cross-platform to
simply have an IO object who's read and write do nothing.

-- 
Tom Felker

Rather a geek than a sheep.