/dev/null
Ivan Voras
ivoras at fer.hr
Fri Oct 6 08:04:30 UTC 2006
Brent Casavant wrote:
> 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.
Hmm, that's... inconvenient. I usually support "root-almighty" thing,
but allowing deletion from dynamically populated /dev seems
counterproductive.
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