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From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Andreas Mohr <andi@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [WARNING -mm] 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 build kills /dev/null!?
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:19:11 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C8CB5F.5040705@tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060727101128.GA31920@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de>

Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> for some reason a 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 build seems to kill my /dev/null device!
> 
> A simple
> # make bzImage modules modules_install
> managed to reduce my
> 
> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       1,   3 27. Jul 12:04 null
> 
> into the charred remains equivalent of
> 
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 27. Jul 12:02 null

Don't build as root.

While something's broke in kernel build scripts and probably
should be fixed, it's not a reason for anyone to get their
whole filesystem rm -rf'ed.

/mjt

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-27 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-27 10:11 [WARNING -mm] 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 build kills /dev/null!? Andreas Mohr
2006-07-27 10:17 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-07-27 11:22   ` Andreas Mohr
2006-07-27 14:19 ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
2006-07-27 14:24   ` gmu 2k6
2006-07-27 14:24     ` gmu 2k6

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