Bugs item #1521375, was opened at 2006-07-12 13:22 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1521375&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Extension Modules Group: Python 2.5 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Scot Doyle (scotdoyle) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: ctypes test overwrites /dev/null Initial Comment: Steps to reproduce on Debian Sarge: 1. ls -l /dev/null 2. wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5/Python-2.5b2.tgz 3. tar xvzf Pyth* 4. cd Pyth* 5. ./configure 6. make 7. su 8. make test 9. ls -l /dev/null /dev/null goes from being a special character device to a normal file of length zero. The following command can be used instead of step 8 above to delete /dev/null ./python -c 'import ctypes.test.test_find' To recreate /dev/null: 1. su 2. rm /dev/null 3. mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3 4. chown root:root /dev/null ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1521375&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
