more unix jokes - /dev/null
Rahul Dhesi
dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP
Tue Sep 20 13:13:13 AEST 1988
># command > /dev/null
>#
>#But what would you do if you happened to have no such device? :-)
My Microport System V/AT once lost /dev/null. I began seeing strange
diagnostics from some programs and it took me while to figure out what
was happening.
A thorough check in the manual revealed no information about the
major/minor device number for /dev/null so I couldn't use mknod to
re-create it.
I finally restored /dev/null from a backup disk. Now how's that for an
ironical situation? I had never before realized how important it is to
keep a safe backup copy of /dev/null.
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