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Date:      Mon, 12 Nov 2001 04:01:43 -0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /dev/null problems 
Message-ID:  <20011112120143.B1026380A@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011112063007.16646G-100000@fledge.watson.org> 

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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
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Cheers,
-Peter
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