Re: [bug] /etc/profile: line 30: /dev/null: Permission denied(Was: Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementationdevtmpfs maintenance disaster)

[Greg KH]

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"?

thanks,

greg k-h
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