Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:03:11 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/null Message-ID: <eg52kp$dlv$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <20061005204949.U18621@abigail.hsd1.mn.comcast.net> References: <20061005224319.GB39057@math.jussieu.fr> <20061005204949.U18621@abigail.hsd1.mn.comcast.net>
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Brent Casavant wrote: > Not with FreeBSD in particular. However, from time to time I've > run across a piece of software that makes bad assumptions about > deleting various input or output files. If run as root, the > program/library might accidentally delete a character special > device such as /dev/null. Hmm, that's... inconvenient. I usually support "root-almighty" thing, but allowing deletion from dynamically populated /dev seems counterproductive.
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