/dev/null 644

[Kai Ng]

In article <9254 at hub.ucsb.edu>, 3003jalp at ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Applied Magnetics) writes:
|> Can anyone explain how this happened ?  I am reporting it to IBM now.
|>     Last login at Wed Feb 20 07:16:12 1991 on hft/0
|>     -sh: /dev/null: 0402-011 Cannot create the specified file.
|>     -sh: /dev/null: 0402-011 Cannot create the specified file.
|>     $ ls -l /dev/null
|>     -rw-r--r--   1 root     system         0 Feb 20 07:16 /dev/null
|> --Pierre Asselin, R&D, Applied Magnetics Corp.  I speak for me.

Somehow the /dev/null disappeared and get reconstructed as an ordinary
file.

It is a known problem in AIX 3002 in which the command lsnfsexp always
destroys the null device.

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