Re: dev/null only root access - why?

[Nelson Castillo <nelsoneci@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Why does dev/null has rw permissions only for root?
>
> ls -al /dev/null
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 22 сеп 21,09 /dev/null

Mmm. Weird major and minor numbers. It doesn't look like a char device.

crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2009-09-21 14:24 /dev/null

N.-