girish@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Girish ) (12/14/90)
I just noticed something funny with the /dev/null under SunOS 4.1 mymachine% cat > /dev/null /dev/null File exists I said Hum... mymachineRunning4.0.3% cat > /dev/null Type happily in the 'black hole' of Unix!!! Cntl-D gets you out. Has something changed in SunOS 4.1 ?? Anybody care to comment ?? Girish Kumthekar girish@rosserv.gsfc.nasa.gov [[Ed's Note: This works fine on my machine running 4.1. I'd check the file /dev/null and make sure everything looks okay on it. It should be c,3,2. Note: I munged around the permissions, but couldn't duplicate your error. Also, /dev/null is not name specific, it's the device numbers that SunOS is looking for. If you do a mknod /dev/blackhole c 3 2, you can cat > /dev/blackhole just like it was /dev/null. -bdg]]