Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:9370 comp.bugs.4bsd:1017 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ttrdc!levy 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 Lines: 15 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). -- |------------Dan Levy------------| THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED HEREIN ARE MINE ONLY | Bell Labs Area 61 (R.I.P., TTY)| AND ARE NOT TO BE IMPUTED TO AT&T. | Skokie, Illinois | |-----Path: att!ttbcad!levy-----|