> > Answer 2.  All the data goes into another dimension, and comes out of
> > /dev/random.

> That would be so funny... I cat /dev/random, and I get your
> files, as you delete them.  8-).

Of course you do, it is just that the bytes are in random order.

But I see that you are thinking of /dev/null as a bitbucket
for files.  Hmm... that means we can get rid of the unlink()
given an atomic rename() syscall.

    mv file1 file2 dir1 et cetera et cetera et cetera /dev/null

Neat!

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