Package: udev
Version: 0.054-3
Severity: minor

In order to satisfy bug report 294968, /dev/.static/dev is a root owned
700 directory.  However, this causes df to barf with a permission error
for this device when a non-root user tries to execute it.  This is
cosmetic, but still annoying as all hell (and may likely break shell
scripts using df, but that's their problem more than yours).

I'm curious, do we actually *need* to mount the static /dev directory
at all?  Why bother if we're not going to maintain it?  I have no
objection to the mountpoint existing, and even a fstab entry for it
if you consider it necessary, but let's not mount it unless we need it
for maintenance.


-- Package-specific info:
-- /etc/udev/rules.d/:
/etc/udev/rules.d/:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 13 Dec  2 20:38 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules

-- /sys/:
/sys/block/dm-0/dev
/sys/block/dm-1/dev
/sys/block/dm-10/dev
/sys/block/dm-11/dev
/sys/block/dm-12/dev
/sys/block/dm-13/dev
/sys/block/dm-14/dev
/sys/block/dm-15/dev
/sys/block/dm-16/dev
/sys/block/dm-17/dev
/sys/block/dm-18/dev
/sys/block/dm-19/dev
/sys/block/dm-2/dev
/sys/block/dm-20/dev
/sys/block/dm-21/dev
/sys/block/dm-22/dev
/sys/block/dm-23/dev
/sys/block/dm-24/dev
/sys/block/dm-25/dev
/sys/block/dm-26/dev
/sys/block/dm-27/dev
/sys/block/dm-28/dev
/sys/block/dm-3/dev
/sys/block/dm-4/dev
/sys/block/dm-5/dev
/sys/block/dm-6/dev
/sys/block/dm-7/dev
/sys/block/dm-8/dev
/sys/block/dm-9/dev
/sys/block/hda/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda1/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda2/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda4/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda5/dev
/sys/block/hdb/dev
/sys/block/hdb/hdb1/dev
/sys/block/hdb/hdb4/dev
/sys/block/hdb/hdb5/dev
/sys/block/hdb/hdb6/dev
/sys/block/hdc/dev
/sys/block/hdd/dev
/sys/block/hdd/hdd1/dev
/sys/block/hdd/hdd4/dev
/sys/block/hdd/hdd5/dev
/sys/block/hdd/hdd6/dev
/sys/block/md0/dev
/sys/block/ram0/dev
/sys/block/ram1/dev
/sys/block/ram10/dev
/sys/block/ram11/dev
/sys/block/ram12/dev
/sys/block/ram13/dev
/sys/block/ram14/dev
/sys/block/ram15/dev
/sys/block/ram2/dev
/sys/block/ram3/dev
/sys/block/ram4/dev
/sys/block/ram5/dev
/sys/block/ram6/dev
/sys/block/ram7/dev
/sys/block/ram8/dev
/sys/block/ram9/dev
/sys/block/sda/dev
/sys/block/sda/sda1/dev
/sys/block/sda/sda4/dev
/sys/block/sda/sda5/dev
/sys/block/sda/sda6/dev
/sys/block/sdb/dev
/sys/block/sdb/sdb1/dev
/sys/block/sdb/sdb4/dev
/sys/block/sdb/sdb5/dev
/sys/block/sdb/sdb6/dev
/sys/class/input/event0/dev
/sys/class/input/event1/dev
/sys/class/input/event2/dev
/sys/class/input/mice/dev
/sys/class/input/mouse0/dev
/sys/class/misc/agpgart/dev
/sys/class/misc/device-mapper/dev
/sys/class/misc/hpet/dev
/sys/class/misc/psaux/dev
/sys/class/misc/rtc/dev
/sys/class/sound/adsp/dev
/sys/class/sound/audio/dev
/sys/class/sound/controlC0/dev
/sys/class/sound/dsp/dev
/sys/class/sound/mixer/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0p/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D1c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D2c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D3c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D4p/dev
/sys/class/sound/timer/dev

-- Kernel configuration:
 isapnp_init not present.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages udev depends on:
ii  hotplug                  0.0.20040329-17 Linux Hotplug Scripts
ii  initscripts              2.86.ds1-1      Standard scripts needed for bootin
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  makedev                  2.3.1-77        creates device files in /dev
ii  sed                      4.1.2-8         The GNU sed stream editor

-- debconf information:
  udev/devfs-warning:
* udev/reboot-warning:


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