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From: charlie@cca.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Non-empty /dev/null
Message-ID: <4949@cca.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Jun-83 09:16:12 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 21 09:16:12 1983
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On our system (4.1bsd VAX) under heavy load, /dev/null is often not
empty;  in fact it contains sometimes interesting stuff belonging to
some other user.  Have others experienced this?  Is there a fix?  The
command "cat /dev/null" illustrates the problem about 1/3 of the time
here.