Re: udev-140 Bug: udevadm test changing mode of /dev to 660, so making /dev unusuable for users

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On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 16:00, Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 18. März 2009, Matthias Schwarzott wrote:
>> This time I have a very strange error. I tried what happens when using
>> # udevadm test /sys/class/mem/null
>>
>> and strange, a bit later some user processes had problems accessing
>> /dev/null. A quick check showed, that the permissions of /dev were
>> destroyed.
>>
>> # ls -ld /dev /dev/null
>> drw-rw---- 16 root root 4280 18. Mär 11:14 /dev
>> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 1, 3 17. Mär 08:05 /dev/null
>>
>
> I found out how the error occurs:
> It is a difference between
> A. udevadm test /sys/class/mem/null/
> and
> B. udevadm test /sys/class/mem/null
>
> Case A was the case that showed the error behaviour. It seems udevadm is
> confused by the trailing slash. This behaviour seems to be there since ages.

Should be fixed now.

Thanks,
Kay
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