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From: rtregn@immd3.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Robert Regn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Is /dev/null really null under 1.3???
Message-ID: <834@faui10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 10 Feb 89 10:41:17 GMT
References: <8130@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: IMMD I, University of Erlangen, W-Erlangen
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From article <8130@louie.udel.EDU>, by jnall%FSU.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (John Nall 904-644-5241):
> Under 1.3d, if I execute the command     cat /dev/null >list
> then Minix madly reads from my harddisk and writes to the file list.
> Query:  Is this unique to me?  Or is it an undocumented feature of 1.3?
> (Prayer: God, please let it not be unique to me.  I've had about all the
> fun I can stand, just updating from 1.2 to 1.3!!)

This is not unique and goes away if you delete /dev/null and make it again
as a character device with old major/minor numbers.

Robert Regn
rtregn@immd3.informatik.uni-erlangen.de