Very possible. /dev/null is essentially a device driver. Everything sent to it goes through the kernel buffers. There are several things that can happen, from a poorly written application that does not check things to a poorly written library function, or a poorly written device driver. On 2 May 2002 at 16:23, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > Well, the device itself might be infinite, but around 10 years ago I > remember hearing about a Unix-based application that crashed because > it was writing out too much stuff to /dev/null. > > IIRC, this was more of a problem with the C stdio library that they > were using, rather than the actual device.
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