On 7/27/06, Michael Tokarev <[email protected]> wrote:
Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> for some reason a 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 build seems to kill my /dev/null device!
>
> A simple
> # make bzImage modules modules_install
> managed to reduce my
>
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 27. Jul 12:04 null
>
> into the charred remains equivalent of
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 27. Jul 12:02 null
Don't build as root.
While something's broke in kernel build scripts and probably
should be fixed, it's not a reason for anyone to get their
whole filesystem rm -rf'ed.
and it does not matter if you're using udev:
$ ls -l /dev/null
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2006-07-27 11:42 /dev/null
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