Re: misc/42237: /dev/null permission issues

[Lucio Albornoz <l.illanes%gmx.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/42237; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Lucio Albornoz <l.illanes%gmx.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: misc-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
        netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: misc/42237: /dev/null permission issues
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 00:39:38 +0100

 On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 02:10:01PM +0000, mr.qweo%gmail.com@localhost wrote:
 > There are strange issues with /dev/null access permissions in a
 > fresh installation of NetBSD [ ... ]. First, these (permissions)
 > are nowhere near persistent [ ... ] Moreover, strange things
 > (appear to?) happen: it looks like /dev/null permissions are
 > being changed along the way (one day I found /dev/null it belonging
 > to my primary group rather than to wheel, and I was nowhere near
 > to claiming such kind authority over it :-) ).
 Same issue as <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/132367>
 perhaps?
 
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