In article <20061016215135.f2c5a173.juan@xtrarom.org>,
Juan RP  <juan@xtrarom.org> wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>For the past two or three weeks firefox-bin coredumped without any
>known reason. I used 'ktruss -i -e linux firefox-linux' and I've found
>the following:
>
>firefox-bin open("/emul/linux/dev/zero", 0x2, 0xbfbfcf7c) Err#-6
>firefox-bin open("/emul/linux/dev/zero", 0x2, Err#0xbfbfcf2c) Err#-6
>
>I wanted to know if /emul/linux/dev/zero is working so I tried 
>the following:
>
>/emul/linux/bin/dd if=/emul/linux/dev/zero of=foo.img count=1
>
>/emul/linux/bin/dd: opening `/emul/linux/dev/zero': No such
>device or address.
>
>/dev/null always returns ENXIO too. After removing /dev/zero
>firefox works again.
>
>I think Christos added some changes to the compat linux layer
>to create devices and probably this is the problem, if I'm not wrong.

I don't recall changing anything like that. Who passes /emul/linux/dev/zero
to the program?

christos