Black hole file
Michael J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E
mchinni at ardec.arpa
Wed Jan 18 08:28:19 AEST 1989
> ls -l >blackhole ; cat blackhole
> I get nothing. ls -l blackhole shows it has a reasonable size,
> but even od just shows a few zeros. If I do this with a
> different file, it works like you would expect. If I delete
> blackhole and try it again, I get the same results (I also get
> the same inode for the file, which I suspect is critical).
Works as expected (i.e blackhole has output from ls -l) on my systems
(1 DEC, 2 Gould, 1 MASSCOMP all running unix).
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Michael J. Chinni
US Army Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center
User to skeleton sitting at cobweb () Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey
and dust covered terminal and desk () ARPA: mchinni at ardec.arpa
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