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

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Message-ID: <20090918150541.GB9307@kroah.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:05:41 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug] /etc/profile: line 30: /dev/null: Permission denied
	(Was: Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation
	devtmpfs maintenance disaster)

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.  Newer 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"?

thanks,

greg k-h
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