Re: /dev/null broken in 2.5.36 ?

[Sebastian Heidl]

On Don, 2002-09-19 at 18:52, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> /dev/null seems to be broken in 2.5.36 (and also 2.5.35)
> 
> [root@elm3b81 root]# uname -a
> Linux elm3b81 2.5.36 #0 SMP Thu Sep 19 09:11:08 PDT 2002 i686 unknown
> 
> [root@elm3b81 root]# dd if=/dev/null of=/tmp/file bs=512 count=100
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 
> [root@elm3b81 root]# ls -l /tmp/file
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Sep 19 09:28 /tmp/file

try to read from /dev/zero

HTH,
_sh_