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Tom Horsley
tom.horsley at att.net
Fri Mar 27 00:30:48 UTC 2009
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:07:54 -0400
brian wrote:
> > It means some script somewhere did an rm -f on /dev/null
> > then later some other script redirected output to /dev/null
> > thus creating it as a regular file.
> >
> It looks more like a typo, as another poster said (one L).
Could be, but I had /dev/null deleted on a machine once and
the ensuing fun was really spectacular :-).
Doing "whatever > /dev/null" wasn't too bad, but when
someone said "whatever < /dev/null" amazingly random things
could happen.
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