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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Message-Id: <199510291548.CAA12043@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
To: ache@astral.msk.su, davidg@Root.COM
Subject: Re: stable general protection fault in last kernel (/dev/null broken)
Cc: current@freebsd.org
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>Original command was: "mixer vol 80 > /dev/null"

>Moreover, it seems that any output to /dev/null is broken,
>i.e. sh echo kkk > /dev/null produce the same error.
>I'll take Bruce's changes, thanx.

ioctls to /dev/null were fatal.  There's not much point in
doing an ioctl on /dev/null, but isatty() does one to see
if TIOCGETA works.

Bruce