Sometime Today, Satya assembled some asciibets to say:
> [root]~# cat /dev/zero1
> cend_request: I/O error, dev 01:05 (ramdisk), sector 8192
> (and more of the same)
See this:
[philip@tellis /dev]$ ls -l ram5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 5 May 6 1998 ram5
[philip@tellis /dev]$ ls -l zero
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 5 May 6 1998 zero
The block and character devices are different cause they point to
different device tables.
> It thinks /dev/zero1 is a ramdisk?? Despite having the same maj/min
> numbers as /dev/zero. Maybe it's a kernel thing -- "/dev/zero is a white
> hole. /dev/null is a black hole. Damn the numbers."
It's not /dev/zero that's the white hole, but character device 1:05 and
character device 1:03 that's the black hole.
for example, in my procmailrc, I have this:
:1
* ^From:.*Vishal.*Doshi
/dev/null
:), j/k. It actually goes to a separate folder that I may look through
sometime.
Philip
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