Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 21:04:52 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.16rc2] compile error
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On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 02:47:53PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >
> >You are hit be an outstanding issue with -rc1 + rc2.
> >When you build as root you will alter /dev/null and in your case it
> >became a regular file.
> 
> That didn't hit me Sam, and I built it as root, running it right now.
First you need to do make clean or make menuconfig to trigger theerror.
Second, not all /dev/null are affected. On my gentoo box it does not
fail.

	Sam
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