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

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Date:	Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:24:20 +0000
From:	"gmu 2k6" <gmu2006@...il.com>
To:	"Michael Tokarev" <mjt@....msk.ru>
Cc:	"Andreas Mohr" <andi@...x01.fht-esslingen.de>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [WARNING -mm] 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 build kills /dev/null!?

On 7/27/06, Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru> 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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