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From: Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (Marty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Is /dev/null a block or character device?
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Date: 20 May 88 19:32:53 GMT
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I was just playing around with had trouble doing things :

cat * | cat >/dev/null

was coming up with broken pipe errors.

Turns out /dev/null was configured as a block device.  Changing it to a
character device appears to solve the problem.

Is /dev/null supposed to be a block or character device?  My distribution proto
file had it as a block file.  I don't know how the initial root file system was
configured.

marty
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