Messages in this thread | | | From | Kay Sievers <> | Date | Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:35:34 +0200 | Subject | Re: [bug] /etc/profile: line 30: /dev/null: Permission denied (Was: Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs maintenance disaster) |
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On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 17:37, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 17:05, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 07:18:54AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Greg KH wrote: >>> > >>> > I think the udev version in older Fedora releases can't handle this >>> > kernel option, which is fine, just don't enable it. Newer versions can >>> > handle it, right? >>> >>> .. conversely, if you can't be bothered to set up /dev/null and /dev/zero >>> correctly, I would suggest that you not set them up AT ALL in devtmpfs. >> >> Fair enough. >> >>> The thing is, 0600 for those nodes is just _wrong_. Don't do it. >> >> Ok, Kay, care to just treat these as "special"? > > Sure, the patch I sent yesterday does that. We might want to drop the > USB device node permissions (same as the proc nodes), but they are > probably not needed? > > Ingo, do you possibly have a chance to test if your setup comes up > with that? That would be great to know.
With that patch, I can login as a normal user without any udev ever started, and no static content copied to /dev.
System boot scripts just complained about ptx stuff because the creation of the /dev/pts directory, and the missing /dev/shm, which is both part of udev's bootstrap code here, and which I had removed.
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