Re: No /dev/nul for users

[Mike Burger]

My systems don't have "/dev/nul"...only "/dev/null"

Did you actually check for the existence of "/dev/nul", and are you sure
that it isn't there due to some hack?

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Gustav Schaffter wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When one of my users try to:
>
> any_command | /dev/nul
>
> the response is either that the file /dev/nul doesn't exist or that he
> doesn't have permissions to do that.
>
> If the same user tries to:
>
> any_command | /dev/null
>                    ^^^^
>
> it works fine.
>
> I'm surpriced. Why is /dev/nul reserved for root? What could a user harm
> by sending stuff to /dev/nul ? And what's the difference between
> /dev/nul and /dev/null ?
>
> Regards
> Gustav
>
>



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