grep bug

Barney Wolff barney at databus.com
Sun Feb 8 21:11:18 PST 2004


On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 06:36:23PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> kkenn at rot13:~ grep -r foo / > /dev/null
> grep: /dev/network: Permission denied
> grep: /dev/geom.ctl: Permission denied
> grep: /dev/devctl: Permission denied
> grep: /dev/ata: Permission denied
> grep: /dev/console: Permission denied
> grep in realloc(): error: allocation failed
> ^C^C^CAbort (core dumped)

grepping /dev/zero seems to fail.

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