reddit discussion on replacing Python in 0install

[David Nadlinger]

On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 00:27:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/10/2013 4:26 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>> So D fails the test too. But now that I think about it, isn't 
>> /dev/null where
>> you write data to a black hole... maybe he meant /dev/zero
>
> Yeah, I thought /dev/null was a bit bucket. D shouldn't fail on 
> writing to that, and didn't.

The command actually redirects /dev/null to fd 1 as an *input* 
stream, thus rendering it non-writable.

David