linux-kernel - Re: [bug] /etc/profile: line 30: /dev/null: Permission denied

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Date:	Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:19:15 +0200
From:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug] /etc/profile: line 30: /dev/null: Permission denied

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 23:09, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> As a special case you can implement this much
>> more simply in devtmpfs_mount just do:
>>
>> int devtmpfs_mount(const char *mountpoint)
>> {
>>         sys_mount("none", "dev", "devtmpfs", MS_SILENT, NULL);
>>       sys_chmod("dev/console", 0666);
>>       sys_chmod("dev/tty", 0666);
>>       sys_chmod("dev/null", 0666);
>>       sys_chmod("dev/zero", 0666);
>> }
>
> Yeah, I think that's the way to go.

Are we sure about console? It's not what udev does today, it stays as 0600.

Kay
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