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From: jonab@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Jonathan Biggar)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Programs unlinking /dev/null
Message-ID: <773@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Jan-84 11:40:04 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  9 11:40:04 1984
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Reply-To: jonab@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Jonathan Biggar)
Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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One should never hack at the kernal when it is not necessary.
Simply make sure that /dev is not writable by anyone but root
and the unlinking problem goes away.  No one but root should
be fiddling with the /dev directory anyway.
-- 
Jon Biggar
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