Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!cca!charlie 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 Article-I.D.: cca.4949 Posted: Tue Jun 21 09:16:12 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Jun-83 23:30:31 EDT Lines: 5 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.