Re: [bug #3836] As Root, upon Exit, MC chmods /dev/null 600 !

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

Hello Egmont,

And of course you're right! :) The strange thing is that your comment
doesn't show in the comments for bug # 3836 ?!.

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Egmont Koblinger wrote:

> Follow-up Comment #5, bug #3836 (project mc):
>
> Some time ago dpkg had a bug: when it removed a package that contained a
> symlink to /dev/null, it chmod'ed /dev/null to 000. The problem was that it
> did a chmod() instead of lchmod(), or stat() instead of lstat() or something
> like that on the file to be removed.
>
> Obviously if mc changed /dev/null to 600 for everyone, we would all know
> about it and it would be already fixed. On the other hand I have no reason to
> doubt the reporter.
>
> So I guess that the bug might be that mc (or maybe its wrapper script)
> chmod's something to 600, and this something (a temp file maybe) happens to
> be a symlink to /dev/null on the reporter's system due to some special setup
> or env var or special wrapper script or something like that...
>
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