Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752077AbZIROTe (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:19:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751606AbZIROTd (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:19:33 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:35188 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751046AbZIROTd (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:19:33 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:18:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Greg KH cc: Kay Sievers , Ingo Molnar , "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-kernel@vger.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) In-Reply-To: <20090918060210.GC7104@kroah.com> Message-ID: References: <20090917125759.GA4045@kroah.com> <20090917185306.GA28635@elte.hu> <1253238637.4071.10.camel@yio.site> <20090918060210.GC7104@kroah.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 674 Lines: 19 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. The thing is, 0600 for those nodes is just _wrong_. Don't do it. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/