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From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: /dev/null (was Re: Daemonizing question...)
Keywords: daemon, open
Message-ID: <2974@cirrusl.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 91 06:16:55 GMT
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If you ever lose /dev/null, you can always restore it from a backup.
(You *do* back up /dev/null often, don't you?)

Actually, I'm not joking.  The last time I lost /dev/null, I was unable
to find its major/minor numbers in the vendor-supplied documentation,
so I simply restored it from a backup.
--
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
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