nobu / ruby-lang.org wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:21:05 +0900,
> Rick DeNatale wrote in [ruby-talk:209686]:
>   
>> And, since we're effectively looking for a write-only file, it seems
>> that it would be better to make the implementation pure Ruby and
>> platform independent, sort of like a StringIO without a string,
>> instead of on platform specific blackholes like /dev/null or the
>> others.  Then it wouldn't need to change if and when a new platform
>> was to be supported.
>>     
>
> It doesn't work with child processes, which would be expected
> in many cases.
>
> I wonder if the name bitbucket is nice.
>
>   
Dir.bitbucket
Dir.devnull
Dir.null_device
Dir.null
Dir.black_hole

I guess I'm leaning towards Dir.null_device in terms of most technically 
descriptive.  It doesn't quite roll off the tongue as nicely as 
"bitbucket", though. :)

Regards,

Dan