Re: /dev/null broken in 2.5.36 ?

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Thu Sep 19 2002 - 11:55:32 EST

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On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Badari Pulavarty wrote:

> As you can from strace output, read on /dev/null returned "0" bytes.
> I wonder why ?

It's supposed to. Try /dev/zero instead.

Rik

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