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Article #59301Re: Netscape & /dev/zero
From: Blake Ryan
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 00:00
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$1@melbourne.dialix.oz.au>, >: wew@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au (William Webber) writes: >: >could help explain what's going on. While Netscape is running, if I enter >: >a command at a term I get the message 'error: can't map to /dev/zero'. I >: >know that /dev/zero is used to return null bytes, but apart from this I >: >am mystified what the problem is. Any ideas? >: I expect you've looked at all the standard things such as 1) does /dev/zero >: exist, and is the device type correct? ie. it isn't a file and looks like: >: crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 1, 5 Jul 18 1994 /dev/zero >: and 2) are the permissions correct (word readable & writeable)? > >what netscape does is try to remap /dev/zero or something -- you can fix it >by doing a binary edit of netscape and changing the one occurrence of /dev/zero >to something like /dev/zerp (which is what I did) with no ill effects. Or, you can update to one of the later versions of ld.so. I struck this problem when upgrading to ELF. Blake
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,5fbce280e75d4989 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,5fbce280e75d4989 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: blake@mrburns.apana.org.au (Blake Ryan) Subject: Re: Netscape & /dev/zero Date: 1996/02/08 Message-ID: <4fbmvb$lop@millhouse.apana.org.au> X-Deja-AN: 138391679 references: <4eqc7q$f2c$1@melbourne.dialix.oz.au> <DM55vB.J9q@blaze.net.au> <4f8t4v$dv2@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au> organization: his computer in his bedroom. newsgroups: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.misc