Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc1

From: Kurt Wall
Date: Wed Jan 18 2006 - 20:39:26 EST


On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:10:56AM +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky took 0 lines to write:
> Kurt Wall wrote:
> > Seems to be okay here with both gcc 3.4.4 and gcc 4.0.2:
>
> You must run as root to see it.

Eew. Yes, with root, I get it with both compilers:

root@luther:~# ls -l /dev/null
crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 1, 3 1994-07-17 19:46 /dev/null
root@luther:~# echo "main() {}" | gcc -xc - -o /dev/null
root@luther:~# ls -l /dev/null
crwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 1, 3 1994-07-17 19:46 /dev/null

root@luther:~# ls -l /dev/null
crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 1, 3 1994-07-17 19:46 /dev/null
root@luther:~# echo "main() {}" | /usr/local/gcc4/bin/gcc -xc - -o
/dev/null
root@luther:~# ls -l /dev/null
crwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 1, 3 1994-07-17 19:46 /dev/null

Obviously gcc shouldn't do such at thing, but just as obviously, don't
build the kernel as root.

Kurt
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