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Christopher Splinter <chris@splinter.inka.de> writes:

> Hm, try replacing /dev/null with /dev/zero.

Nope. Doesn't make a difference for me (both devices have the same
permissions on my machine).  I'll suggest the Linux kernel developers
to implement a /dev/nnfolder which behaves like an empty folder ;-)

Cheers,
  Ray
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