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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:55:32 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: /dev/null broken in 2.5.36 ?
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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.

Rik
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