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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Re: Please help!
Message-ID: <463@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 14:14:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: moncol.463
Posted: Sun Aug 11 14:14:21 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 06:05:43 EDT
References: <489@utastro.UUCP> <660@cybvax0.UUCP> <817@daemen.UUCP>
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]From: boyce@daemen.UUCP (Doug Boyce)
]Message-ID: <817@daemen.UUCP>
]Organization: Daemen College, Buffalo, NY
]
]> In article <489@utastro.UUCP> nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:
]> >We have been running Unix 4.2bsd for a *long* time now, with very high
]> >load averages every day.  I guess it was inevitable, but strange effects
]> >on many working programs have been traced to a common cause:
]> >
]> >      /dev/null is full, and is overflowing!
]> >
]> >Anybody seen this problem before?  Can anyone help?
]> 
]> What if you remove /dev/null will all of that data explode
]> the machine if suddenly released ?
]
]I just finished speaking to a friend at Berkeley and he tells me that 4.2
]has a booby-trap in it.  They forsaw (sp?) that /dev/null might overflow
]and that some stupid SA might think to remove it, they added some code
]in the kernal that will make a vax (only vax mind you) impode. Think about
]it.......

Oh, but what about all those SUN workstations running 4.2? Will they go up
in a supernova if /dev/null is removed?

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