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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.