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Date:      Sun, 19 Nov 1995 07:15:38 +0800 (WST)
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
To:        "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Gary Palmer <gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com>, =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= <ache@astral.msk.su>, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-share@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/zoneinfo Makefile 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.951119071039.16172A-100000@jhome.DIALix.COM>
In-Reply-To: <9511182220.AA32113@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Sat, 18 Nov 1995, Garrett A. Wollman wrote:
> <<On Wed, 15 Nov 1995 19:13:47 -0800, Gary Palmer <gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com> said:
> 
> >> What was wrong with -L /dev/null?
> 
> > See my mail in freebsd-stable (followed by another e-mail from Jordan
> > when he woke up :-) ). Basically, it came out with the following
> > errors when run earlier today:
> 
> > "/dev/null", line 2: input line of unknown type
> > "/dev/null", line 3: input line of unknown type
> 
> Are you /sure/ your /dev/null was correct?
> 
> -GAWollman

Perhaps somebody had over-filled it and the excess bits were leaking out, 
upsetting zic?  Perhaps the real bug is in 'make world' that's causing 
too much to go into /dev/null too quickly for the kernel to drain it?

:-) :-)

-Peter

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