Funny thing noticed with 4.1 and /dev/null

[Girish]

I just noticed something funny with the /dev/null under SunOS 4.1

mymachine% cat > /dev/null
/dev/null File exists

I said Hum...

mymachineRunning4.0.3% cat > /dev/null

Type happily in the 'black hole' of Unix!!!  Cntl-D gets you out.  Has
something changed in SunOS 4.1 ??

Anybody care to comment ??

Girish Kumthekar
girish at rosserv.gsfc.nasa.gov

[[Ed's Note: This works fine on my machine running 4.1. I'd check the file
/dev/null and make sure everything looks okay on it. It should be c,3,2.
Note: I munged around the permissions, but couldn't duplicate your error.
Also, /dev/null is not name specific, it's the device numbers that SunOS
is looking for. If you do a mknod /dev/blackhole c 3 2, you can cat >
/dev/blackhole just like it was /dev/null. -bdg]]