Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:27:01 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc1
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:54:54AM +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Ok, it's two weeks since 2.6.15, and the merge window is closed.
> 
> I am looking at a problem where the build seems to remove /dev/null,
> which is then created as a regular file (naturally). This did not
> happen before.
> 
> # ls -l /dev/null
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 1, 3 Jan 18 08:42 /dev/null
> # make distclean
>   CLEAN   scripts/basic
>   CLEAN   scripts/kconfig
>   CLEAN   include/config
>   CLEAN   .config .config.old include/asm include/linux/autoconf.h include/linux/version.h .kernelrelease
> # ls -l /dev/null
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 47 Jan 18 08:42 /dev/null

Strange.
I have tried to reproduce without luck...
Can you please do above steps again with V=1 added like this:
ls -l /dev/null
make distclean V=1
ls -l /dev/null

Not a fix - but do not build as root....

	Sam
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