Why /dev/null Is an ACID Compliant Database (jyu.dev)

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[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 6 points 3 weeks ago

Reminds me of dev.null as an e-mail address, but perhaps the service is more useful(?). I had access to the back-end of the mail server in question and it literally had /dev/null in the configuration.

And yes, it ate any e-mails sent to it.

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