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

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Date:	Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:19:11 +0400
From:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
To:	Andreas Mohr <andi@...x01.fht-esslingen.de>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [WARNING -mm] 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 build kills /dev/null!?

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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