more unix jokes - /dev/null

Ron Natalie ron at topaz.rutgers.edu
Thu Sep 22 05:24:01 AEST 1988


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).

-Ron



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