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From: Tobias Henoeckl <hoeni@sisyphus.de>
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Subject: Re: /dev/null permission change from 4.3 -> 4.4...
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Hi,

>         I've chmod'ed all of my boxen back to 0666, but... I'm curious
> as to why this happened and the rationale behind the change.  I've
> observed this difference on at least 15 other 4.4 systems.  What gives?

same here. I'm making world once or twice a week and had *very*
strange things going on which lead me to /dev/null beeing mode 600.

After another MAKEDEV everything was fine again.

bye, hoeni


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