Re: Altered /dev/null

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Eric "Shubes" wrote:

> 2) has anyone else had to remove and mknod /dev/null manually?

Yes. I have seen a few systems where /dev/null was a regular file.

> 3) what does anyone know about /dev/null vs. /dev/zero (they could be
> linked, no?)

No. They are different. /dev/zero outputs zeros.

> P.S. When was the last time you used the scroll-lock key to scroll-lock?

On FreeBSD, the scroll-lock key is used to scroll in the (non-X)
consoles.

Jeremy C. Reed
http://www.reedmedia.net/

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