Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 04:01:43 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/null problems Message-ID: <20011112120143.B1026380A@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011112063007.16646G-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote:
> So in theory this is fixed, but I actually bumped into an unexpected EPERM
> again from a linux emulated program yesterday (acroread4) which popped up
> an error message about /dev/null. I haven't tried to reproduce as yet,
> since I'm currently rebuilding KDE; /dev/null works properly for me on the
> FreeBSD ABI again, so maybe it's just a bug in acroread4.
Also, I've seen netscape etc do this too when it thinks it is executing
acroread4, but instead is doing an exec("/dev/null". ... ).
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
>
> > I was trying to build a package the other day, but I was having problems
> > with /dev/null. My world is from Nov 4th.
> >
> > drifter# ls -l /dev/null
> > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Nov 11 16:56 /dev/null
> > drifter# echo > /dev/null
> > drifter# su - gordont
> > %echo > /dev/null
> > /dev/null: Operation not permitted.
> > %ls -l /dev/null
> > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Nov 11 16:57 /dev/null
> >
> > Anyone else seeing this problem?
> >
> > -gordon
> >
> >
> >
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Cheers,
-Peter
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