Subject: chown -R bin.bin /dev/fd
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Stefan Monnier <stefan.monnier@lia.di.epfl.ch>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/15/1996 11:22:05
I noticed the other day that 'ps' wasn't working correctly anymore.
The reason was a bad group on /dev/mem which ended up coming from a
weird bug in chown. If you have the fdesc typesystem mounted, when the
MAKEDEV does the
chown -R bin/bin fd
it doesn't just chown the content of fd, but also the devices in /dev:
/dev-0# l mem
crw-r----- 1 bin kmem 3, 0 Apr 15 11:12 mem
/dev-0# chown -R bin.bin fd
chown: fd/3/fd: Permission denied
chown: fd/3/fd: Permission denied
chown: fd/3: No such file or directory
chown: fd/4: No such file or directory
chown: fd: Permission denied
/dev-1# l mem
crw-r----- 1 bin bin 3, 0 Apr 15 11:12 mem
/dev-0#
This is with NetBSD-1.1 on sparc with fdesc mounted transparently on /dev.
Stefan