From: Sebastian Heidl <heidl@zib.de>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /dev/null broken in 2.5.36 ?
Date: 19 Sep 2002 18:59:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1032454783.1192.13.camel@csr-pc10> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200209191652.g8JGqgv10535@eng2.beaverton.ibm.com>
On Don, 2002-09-19 at 18:52, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> /dev/null seems to be broken in 2.5.36 (and also 2.5.35)
>
> [root@elm3b81 root]# uname -a
> Linux elm3b81 2.5.36 #0 SMP Thu Sep 19 09:11:08 PDT 2002 i686 unknown
>
> [root@elm3b81 root]# dd if=/dev/null of=/tmp/file bs=512 count=100
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
>
> [root@elm3b81 root]# ls -l /tmp/file
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 19 09:28 /tmp/file
try to read from /dev/zero
HTH,
_sh_
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-19 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-19 16:52 Badari Pulavarty
2002-09-19 16:55 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-19 16:57 ` Badari Pulavarty
2002-09-19 16:59 ` Sebastian Heidl [this message]
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