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Message-ID: <f96157c40607270724v40f1db96q19d1c206b12bb7e0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:24:51 +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, gmu 2k6 <gmu2006@...il.com> wrote: > 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 actually this is so obvious I should not have posted that reply. sorry guys. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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