Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!sdrc!scjones
From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Black hole file
Message-ID: <498@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 89 16:03:47 GMT
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
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OK, I've got one for you guys.  I've got this file that just
absorbs whatever get put into it.  For example, if I do:

	ls -l >blackhole ; cat blackhole

I get nothing.  ls -l blackhole shows it has a reasonable size,
but even od just shows a few zeros.  If I do this with a
different file, it works like you would expect.  If I delete
blackhole and try it again, I get the same results (I also get
the same inode for the file, which I suspect is critical).

My first thought was a munged file system, but fsck shows all is
well.  Anyone have any idea what is going on here???

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