Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:27:01 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc1 |
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:54:54AM +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ok, it's two weeks since 2.6.15, and the merge window is closed. > > I am looking at a problem where the build seems to remove /dev/null, > which is then created as a regular file (naturally). This did not > happen before. > > # ls -l /dev/null > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Jan 18 08:42 /dev/null > # make distclean > CLEAN scripts/basic > CLEAN scripts/kconfig > CLEAN include/config > CLEAN .config .config.old include/asm include/linux/autoconf.h include/linux/version.h .kernelrelease > # ls -l /dev/null > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 47 Jan 18 08:42 /dev/null
Strange. I have tried to reproduce without luck... Can you please do above steps again with V=1 added like this: ls -l /dev/null make distclean V=1 ls -l /dev/null
Not a fix - but do not build as root....
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