From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 12 4: 1:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 324BB37B417; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 04:01:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fACC1hM13026; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 04:01:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1026380A; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 04:01:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Robert Watson Cc: Gordon Tetlow , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/null problems In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 04:01:43 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20011112120143.B1026380A@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Watson wrote: > So in theory this is fixed, but I actually bumped into an unexpected EPERM > again from a linux emulated program yesterday (acroread4) which popped up > an error message about /dev/null. I haven't tried to reproduce as yet, > since I'm currently rebuilding KDE; /dev/null works properly for me on the > FreeBSD ABI again, so maybe it's just a bug in acroread4. Also, I've seen netscape etc do this too when it thinks it is executing acroread4, but instead is doing an exec("/dev/null". ... ). > On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > > > I was trying to build a package the other day, but I was having problems > > with /dev/null. My world is from Nov 4th. > > > > drifter# ls -l /dev/null > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Nov 11 16:56 /dev/null > > drifter# echo > /dev/null > > drifter# su - gordont > > %echo > /dev/null > > /dev/null: Operation not permitted. > > %ls -l /dev/null > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Nov 11 16:57 /dev/null > > > > Anyone else seeing this problem? > > > > -gordon > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message