On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:54:54AM +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Ok, it's two weeks since 2.6.15, and the merge window is closed.
>
> I am looking at a problem where the build seems to remove /dev/null,
> which is then created as a regular file (naturally). This did not
> happen before.
>
> # ls -l /dev/null
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Jan 18 08:42 /dev/null
> # make distclean
> CLEAN scripts/basic
> CLEAN scripts/kconfig
> CLEAN include/config
> CLEAN .config .config.old include/asm include/linux/autoconf.h include/linux/version.h .kernelrelease
> # ls -l /dev/null
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 47 Jan 18 08:42 /dev/null
Strange.
I have tried to reproduce without luck...
Can you please do above steps again with V=1 added like this:
ls -l /dev/null
make distclean V=1
ls -l /dev/null
Not a fix - but do not build as root....
Sam
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