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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null
Keywords: backup copy of /dev/null
Message-ID: <2934@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 88 05:16:03 GMT
References: <8488@smoke.ARPA> <26090@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1049@sybase.sybase.com> 
Organization: AT&T, Skokie, IL
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In article , ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
< Better to load /dev/null from a back up disk than to do what one of
< the Unipress people did.  They got the minor number wrong and used
< the one for /dev/mem.  It's amazing what happens when programs that
< aren't expecting any input suddenly get some (especially binary stuff
< like /dev/mem).

Not to mention programs which dump unwanted output TO /dev/null (thus,
with the above mistake, scribbling over low memory, which usually contains
the kernel... OUCH).
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