Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754808AbZIRPJQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:09:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754621AbZIRPJO (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:09:14 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:42862 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754509AbZIRPJL (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:09:11 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:05:41 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Linus Torvalds 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) Message-ID: <20090918150541.GB9307@kroah.com> References: <20090917125759.GA4045@kroah.com> <20090917185306.GA28635@elte.hu> <1253238637.4071.10.camel@yio.site> <20090918060210.GC7104@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 832 Lines: 26 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 -- 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/