more unix jokes - /dev/null

[Daniel R. Levy]

In article <Sep.21.15.24.00.1988.4097 at topaz.rutgers.edu>, ron at topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
< Better to load /dev/null from a back up disk than to do what one of
< the Unipress people did.  They got the minor number wrong and used
< the one for /dev/mem.  It's amazing what happens when programs that
< aren't expecting any input suddenly get some (especially binary stuff
< like /dev/mem).

Not to mention programs which dump unwanted output TO /dev/null (thus,
with the above mistake, scribbling over low memory, which usually contains
the kernel... OUCH).
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