Re: [WARNING -mm] 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 build kills /dev/null!?

[Michael Tokarev]

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.

/mjt
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