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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Daemonizing question...
Keywords: daemon, open
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.105747.1737@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 10:57:47 GMT
References: <12459@helios.TAMU.EDU> <12497@helios.TAMU.EDU> <6276@auspex.auspex.com>
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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In article <6276@auspex.auspex.com>, guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
[stuff about daemons assuming, or not assuming, that /dev/null exists]

We once managed to lose /dev/null.  I forget how, but I assume you, the
system cannot function normally when this happens!  Many programs, some
fundamental to the system, break in unobvious ways.  It took quite some
time before I found the cause....

(Oh yes.  "the system" was either mtXinu 4.3+NFS or SunOS 3.x, I forget
which.  Probably the latter.)

					der Mouse

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