>Busybox mdev will not chmod the device node when the matched rule
>contains a '!'. Matching this behaviour makes it possible for a rule
>to preserve the mode set by the kernel for devices that are created
>automatically by devtmpfs.
While reviewing it, I found that the same path where the chmod() occurs
also has the mknod() in it, so it needs to be guarded with
elem->movetype != MOVEINFO_NOCREATE anyway - so your patch is more than
a behaviour adjustment, it's a bugfix 🙂
Applied, thanks!
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Laurent
Received on Thu Nov 06 2025 - 17:26:09 CET