freebsd stable - Oct 2006 - /dev/null

Hi All
>From someday I've some very strange thing.... sometime my /dev/null just
vanish.

Anyone have this problem ?

I'm running FreeBSD RELENG_6

Regards.


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Albert SHIH
Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT)
U.F.R. de Mathematiques.
7 ième étage, plateau D, bureau 10
Heure local/Local time:
Fri Oct 6 00:40:33 CEST 2006

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Albert Shih wrote:
> From someday I've some very strange thing.... sometime my /dev/null
just
> vanish.
> 
> Anyone have this problem ?
Not with FreeBSD in particular.  However, from time to time I've
run across a piece of software that makes bad assumptions about
deleting various input or output files.  If run as root, the
program/library might accidentally delete a character special
device such as /dev/null.

Not that *I* would have ever written such code, mind you.

(whistles innocently)

Brent