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Re: Netscape & /dev/zero

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From: Blake Ryan
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 00:00
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In article <4f8t4v$dv2@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au>, James Mcpherson wrote:
>David Nugent (davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au) wrote:
>: In article <4eqc7q$f2c$1@melbourne.dialix.oz.au>,
>: 	wew@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au (William Webber) writes:
>: >could help explain what's going on. While Netscape is running, if I enter 
>: >a command at a term I get the message 'error: can't map to /dev/zero'. I 
>: >know that /dev/zero is used to return null bytes, but apart from this I 
>: >am mystified what the problem is. Any ideas?
>: I expect you've looked at all the standard things such as 1) does /dev/zero
>: exist, and is the device type correct? ie. it isn't a file and looks like:
>: crw-rw-rw-   1 root     sys        1,   5 Jul 18  1994 /dev/zero
>: and 2) are the permissions correct (word readable & writeable)?
>
>what netscape does is try to remap /dev/zero or something -- you can fix it
>by doing a binary edit of netscape and changing the one occurrence of /dev/zero
>to something like /dev/zerp (which is what I did) with no ill effects.

Or, you can update to one of the later versions of ld.so.  I struck this problem
when upgrading to ELF.

Blake
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From: blake@mrburns.apana.org.au (Blake Ryan)
Subject: Re: Netscape & /dev/zero
Date: 1996/02/08
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