Messages in this thread | | | From | Kay Sievers <> | Date | Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:37:34 +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 17:05, 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.
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