/dev/null (was Re: Daemonizing question...)

Rahul Dhesi dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com
Wed Feb 27 17:16:55 AEST 1991


If you ever lose /dev/null, you can always restore it from a backup.
(You *do* back up /dev/null often, don't you?)

Actually, I'm not joking.  The last time I lost /dev/null, I was unable
to find its major/minor numbers in the vendor-supplied documentation,
so I simply restored it from a backup.
--
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
UUCP:  oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi



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