Re: Strange udev problem

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 09:16:43AM -0700, Jim Gifford wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard Troth" <rtroth@bmc.com>
> To: "Jim Gifford" <maillist@jg555.com>
> Cc: "HotPlug Developer List" <linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 8:03 AM
> Subject: Re: Strange udev problem
> 
> 
> > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Jim Gifford wrote:
> > > The SMP machine is a server and has multiple tasks runnning.
> >
> > Is your SMP machine running a database?   Maybe UDB?
> >
> > We do a lot with mainframe Linux,  which means we do a lot with
> > IBM products.   Something  (I *think* it was IBM's UDB,  but am
> > not certain)  kept changing the permission bits on /dev/null
> > every time one certain virtual Linux got rebooted.   I never
> > found out what because we have such a large flock of penguins.
> >
> > It could have been Websphere.   Heck,  maybe even Oracle.
> >
> > I attributed the problem to a bug in a start-up script.
> > If so,  it's completely unrelated to HotPlug.
> >
> > -- R;
> >
> Everything worked on my system under udev026, it's just with 027 this
> problem started. I have reverted back and changed the files, and everything
> works fine. At least it appears that way, I will have to wait and see.

There were only 2 changes between 026 and 027:
  <fork0:users.sf.net>:
   o fix handle leak in udev_lib.c

  Greg Kroah-Hartman:
    o tweak the gentoo default permission rules as they are wrong for
    tty and misc devices

I don't think that either of these changes caused anything to cause
device nodes to have their permissions changed, but if so, I would be
very interested in it.

thanks,

greg k-h


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