Non-empty /dev/null

charlie at cca.UUCP charlie at cca.UUCP
Tue Jun 21 23:16:12 AEST 1983


On our system (4.1bsd VAX) under heavy load, /dev/null is often not
empty;  in fact it contains sometimes interesting stuff belonging to
some other user.  Have others experienced this?  Is there a fix?  The
command "cat /dev/null" illustrates the problem about 1/3 of the time
here.



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