Regression with dev_null.f90

[Steve Kargl]

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 10:29:37PM +0200, Fran?ois-Xavier Coudert wrote:
> >Thomas,
> >
> >Your commit of Bud's /dev/null is causing failures in 
> >"gmake check-gfortran".
> 
> I think to recall that I did this commit (but I'm coming back from a 
> long London week-end that cleared all memory from things that happened 
> before last Friday).
> 
> This failure is freebsd-specific (it doesn't happen on i386-linux or 
> sparc-solaris).
> 
> I'll look into it as I do have nightly freebsd builds.
> 
 
I assume that the linux behavior is that /dev/null is 
non-readable.  FreeBSD shows a permission of rw-rw-rw.
The wording in the man page is a little odd, but I 
believe you can read from /dev/null although I haven't
tried to verify this behavior.

-- 
Steve