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From: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: /dev/null broken in 2.5.36 ?
To: riel@conectiva.com.br (Rik van Riel)
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:57:17 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: pbadari@us.ibm.com (Badari Pulavarty), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0209191355000.1519-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> from "Rik van Riel" at Sep 19, 2002 12:55:32 PM PST
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> 
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> 
> > As you can from strace output, read on /dev/null returned "0" bytes.
> > I wonder why ?
> 
> It's supposed to.  Try /dev/zero instead.
> 

Oh !! I must be brain-dead :) 
Thanks !!

- Badari
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