/dev/null

[Brent Casavant]

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