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SubjectRe: [WARNING -mm] 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 build kills /dev/null!?
On 7/27/06, gmu 2k6 <gmu2006@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/27/06, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> > Andreas Mohr wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > for some reason a 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 build seems to kill my /dev/null device!
> > >
> > > A simple
> > > # make bzImage modules modules_install
> > > managed to reduce my
> > >
> > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 27. Jul 12:04 null
> > >
> > > into the charred remains equivalent of
> > >
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 27. Jul 12:02 null
> >
> > Don't build as root.
> >
> > While something's broke in kernel build scripts and probably
> > should be fixed, it's not a reason for anyone to get their
> > whole filesystem rm -rf'ed.
>
> and it does not matter if you're using udev:
> $ ls -l /dev/null
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2006-07-27 11:42 /dev/null

actually this is so obvious I should not have posted that reply. sorry guys.
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