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

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 17:05, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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. ÂNewer 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"?

Sure, the patch I sent yesterday does that. We might want to drop the
USB device node permissions (same as the proc nodes), but they are
probably not needed?

Ingo, do you possibly have a chance to test if your setup comes up
with that? That would be great to know.

Thanks,
Kay
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