Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 20:52:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Brent Casavant <b.j.casavant@ieee.org> To: Albert Shih <shih@math.jussieu.fr> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/null Message-ID: <20061005204949.U18621@abigail.hsd1.mn.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20061005224319.GB39057@math.jussieu.fr> References: <20061005224319.GB39057@math.jussieu.fr>
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On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Albert Shih wrote: > From someday I've some very strange thing.... sometime my /dev/null just > vanish. > > Anyone have this problem ? 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. Not that *I* would have ever written such code, mind you. (whistles innocently) Brent
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