Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 19:44:45 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: kris@obsecurity.org Cc: daniel_k_eriksson@msn.com Subject: Re: zero and null regression? Message-ID: <20041002.194445.93451101.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20041001163250.GA71766@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <BAY11-F3Pylh7i70A780001c865@hotmail.com> <20041001163250.GA71766@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
: On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 05:02:58AM +0000, Daniel Eriksson wrote:
: > After upgrading a 6-CURRENT machine from a 5 day old kernel to one cvsuped
: > just a few hours ago, special files zero and null created through mknod no
: > longer works.
: >
: > # mknod zerotest c 2 12
: > # chmod 666 zerotest
: > # cat zerotest > /dev/null
: > cat: zerotest: Socket operation on non-socket
: >
: > Could this be related to the vfs stuff Poul-Henning Kamp is working with?
:
: I'm pretty sure this is by design - see phk's commits and related
: discussion. Use devfs for device nodes.
This is inconvenient when you have a chroot that you use to build
products in that isn't a jail... Not impossible to work around, just
very inconvenient :-(
Warner
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