Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 18:13:46 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: ache@astral.msk.su, davidg@Root.COM, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: stable general protection fault in last kernel (/dev/null broken) Message-ID: <199510291613.SAA00567@grumble.grondar.za>
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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. Thanks a lot for picking this one up, folks. I had a high temperature at the time I did this commit, and had I problem concentrating for more than 5mins. As a result, I comitted the wrong patch :-( I did not relish having to think my way through this one.... M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grumble.grondar.za for PGP key
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