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From: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
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To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/zoneinfo Makefile 
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On Sat, 18 Nov 1995, Garrett A. Wollman wrote:
> <<On Wed, 15 Nov 1995 19:13:47 -0800, Gary Palmer <gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com> said:
> 
> >> What was wrong with -L /dev/null?
> 
> > See my mail in freebsd-stable (followed by another e-mail from Jordan
> > when he woke up :-) ). Basically, it came out with the following
> > errors when run earlier today:
> 
> > "/dev/null", line 2: input line of unknown type
> > "/dev/null", line 3: input line of unknown type
> 
> Are you /sure/ your /dev/null was correct?
> 
> -GAWollman

Perhaps somebody had over-filled it and the excess bits were leaking out, 
upsetting zic?  Perhaps the real bug is in 'make world' that's causing 
too much to go into /dev/null too quickly for the kernel to drain it?

:-) :-)

-Peter

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