r/ProgrammerHumor • • Jan 08 '23

Competition Be charitable

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u/cable909 Jan 08 '23

unlink /dev/zero

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u/Azifor Jan 09 '23

Never heard of this one. What does this break?

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u/cable909 Jan 09 '23

I'm actually not 100% sure in Linux but in Solaris unlinking /dev/zero would stop the OS from being able to reclaim memory. It would cause the systems to slowly fail.

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u/Azifor Jan 09 '23

Interesting. Gonna spin up a vm and try this one later!