From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030341AbWASBkl (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:40:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030415AbWASBkl (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:40:41 -0500 Received: from spooner.celestial.com ([192.136.111.35]:16009 "EHLO spooner.celestial.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030341AbWASBkk (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:40:40 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:40:44 -0500 From: Kurt Wall To: Eyal Lebedinsky Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc1 Message-ID: <20060119014044.GC17917@kurtwerks.com> Mail-Followup-To: Eyal Lebedinsky , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <43CD67AE.9030501@eyal.emu.id.au> <20060117232701.GA7606@mars.ravnborg.org> <20060118085936.4773dd77.khali@linux-fr.org> <20060118091543.GA8277@mars.ravnborg.org> <20060118100133.GE6980@kurtwerks.com> <43CEAEE0.2060109@eyal.emu.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43CEAEE0.2060109@eyal.emu.id.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.16-rc1krw X-Woot: Woot! Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:10:56AM +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky took 0 lines to write: > Kurt Wall wrote: > > Seems to be okay here with both gcc 3.4.4 and gcc 4.0.2: > > You must run as root to see it. Eew. Yes, with root, I get it with both compilers: root@luther:~# ls -l /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 1, 3 1994-07-17 19:46 /dev/null root@luther:~# echo "main() {}" | gcc -xc - -o /dev/null root@luther:~# ls -l /dev/null crwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 1, 3 1994-07-17 19:46 /dev/null root@luther:~# ls -l /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 1, 3 1994-07-17 19:46 /dev/null root@luther:~# echo "main() {}" | /usr/local/gcc4/bin/gcc -xc - -o /dev/null root@luther:~# ls -l /dev/null crwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 1, 3 1994-07-17 19:46 /dev/null Obviously gcc shouldn't do such at thing, but just as obviously, don't build the kernel as root. Kurt -- "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time." -- Steven Wright