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by MartijnBraam 231 days ago
Ah you've never encountered /dev/null not existing yet, so when you try to trash data it will actually create a normal file there so every other program that uses it will actually append that file.

Luckily it's usually a tmpfs

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> Ah you've never encountered /dev/null not existing yet

I feel like that'd happen because of some other bug, I wouldn't consider that a bug in /dev/null :)