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From: boyce@daemen.UUCP (Doug Boyce)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Re: Please help!
Message-ID: <817@daemen.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 13:58:37 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  7 13:58:37 1985
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> 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.......
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Doug Boyce   Daemen College, Amherst NY

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