jnall%FSU.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (John Nall 904-644-5241) (02/07/89)
Under 1.3d, if I execute the command cat /dev/null >list then Minix madly reads from my harddisk and writes to the file list. Query: Is this unique to me? Or is it an undocumented feature of 1.3? (Prayer: God, please let it not be unique to me. I've had about all the fun I can stand, just updating from 1.2 to 1.3!!) jnall@rai.fsu.edu (BITNET) nall@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Arpa-Internet)
rtregn@immd3.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Robert Regn) (02/10/89)
From article <8130@louie.udel.EDU>, by jnall%FSU.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (John Nall 904-644-5241): > Under 1.3d, if I execute the command cat /dev/null >list > then Minix madly reads from my harddisk and writes to the file list. > Query: Is this unique to me? Or is it an undocumented feature of 1.3? > (Prayer: God, please let it not be unique to me. I've had about all the > fun I can stand, just updating from 1.2 to 1.3!!) This is not unique and goes away if you delete /dev/null and make it again as a character device with old major/minor numbers. Robert Regn rtregn@immd3.informatik.uni-erlangen.de