On 10/6/19 9:05 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
/dev/null is full ??? Huh ???
Yeah, it always happens, nobody takes care of cleaning up /dev/null, so it becomes full of stuff. But, you know, there are people providing cloud-based dev-null-as-a-service at affordable prices. For example you can send them 100GB per month for just $25. https://devnull-as-a-service.com/pricing/ (I hope everybody in this mailing list is able to detect the above is said as a joke...) Anyway, of course mistyping /dev/null can fill the disk containing the "dev" directory, but if you really want to see sudden random failures in any software, you should try replacing /dev/null with a normal file. This happened to me once because of a stupid installer of a very well known commercial product. Then, if the permissions are not open to "others", somebody using /dev/null will fail at reading or writing. And if the permissions are instead open, the process reading from /dev/null will actually read something that another process was intending to discard. Spectacular confusion. Regards. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
