Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:9312 comp.bugs.4bsd:1004 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null Keywords: backup copy of /dev/null Message-ID:Date: 21 Sep 88 19:24:01 GMT References: <8488@smoke.ARPA> <26090@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1049@sybase.sybase.com> <1414@star.cs.vu.nl> <605@sering.cwi.nl> <4020@bsu-cs.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 7 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). -Ron