Re: [bug] /etc/profile: line 30: /dev/null: Permission denied (Was: Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs maintenance disaster)

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 17:37, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 17:05, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> >> 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"?
> >
> > Sure, the patch I sent yesterday does that. We might want to drop the
> > USB device node permissions (same as the proc nodes), but they are
> > probably not needed?
> >
> > Ingo, do you possibly have a chance to test if your setup comes up 
> > with that? That would be great to know.
> 
> With that patch, I can login as a normal user without any udev ever 
> started, and no static content copied to /dev.

Great. Please merge this without waiting me to clear up any of my (way 
too much) backlog and get it tested. The only hickup i had was the 
/dev/zero & /dev/null permission stuff that prevented ssh logins. With 
that fixed i'm a happy camper.

Self-contained /dev is great, udev is a total PITA on older distros (on 
this box it sometimes takes 3 minutes for udev to boot ...) so turning 
on devtmpfs and getting something functional in exchange is a big 
selling point IMO.

Btw., i never understood the separation of udev from the kernel. It's 
not like it makes any sense without a Linux kernel - and the separation 
just increases release cycle pain and causes (unnecessary) detachment 
from the actual kernel. Should be hosted in tools/udev/ or so ;-)

	Ingo