Robert Watson wrote: > So in theory this is fixed, but I actually bumped into an unexpected EPERM > again from a linux emulated program yesterday (acroread4) which popped up > an error message about /dev/null. I haven't tried to reproduce as yet, > since I'm currently rebuilding KDE; /dev/null works properly for me on the > FreeBSD ABI again, so maybe it's just a bug in acroread4.
Also, I've seen netscape etc do this too when it thinks it is executing acroread4, but instead is doing an exec("/dev/null". ... ). > On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > > > I was trying to build a package the other day, but I was having problems > > with /dev/null. My world is from Nov 4th. > > > > drifter# ls -l /dev/null > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Nov 11 16:56 /dev/null > > drifter# echo > /dev/null > > drifter# su - gordont > > %echo > /dev/null > > /dev/null: Operation not permitted. > > %ls -l /dev/null > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Nov 11 16:57 /dev/null > > > > Anyone else seeing this problem? > > > > -gordon > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message