Re: dev/null only root access - why?

[Chris Jackson <c.jackson@shadowcat.co.uk>]

Nelson Castillo wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Why does dev/null has rw permissions only for root?
> >
> > ls -al /dev/null
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 22 сеп 21,09 /dev/null
>
> Mmm. Weird major and minor numbers. It doesn't look like a char device.


It's a regular file of size zero created at 2109 on the 22nd of what 
looks like "cen" - which is sep in cyrillic.

Whoever made the comment about something creating the file before the 
device gets created is right I rather suspect ;) Or udev isn't running 
for some reason.

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Chris Jackson
Shadowcat Systems Ltd.