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To: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net>
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Subject: Re: /dev/null breakage in 2.2.7 
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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 14:56:29 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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Someone removed your /dev/null; then it became a regular file the next
time root wrote to it.  I had this happen when I did a "fetch -o /dev/null"
as root and interrupted it in the middle; fetch removed /dev/null since
it was only a partially transferred file =)

  Bill

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