Re: [bug] /etc/profile: line 30: /dev/null: Permission denied (Was:Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs maintenancedisaster)

[Linus Torvalds]

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.

The thing is, 0600 for those nodes is just _wrong_. Don't do it.

			Linus
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