buildbot: ./configure: line 27: /dev/null: Permission denied

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun Oct 7 15:34:10 PDT 2012


On 2012-10-8 09:21 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
> And Josh, the parent dir doesn't allow nuking the file:
> dr-xr-xr-x   3 root  wheel      5158 Oct  4 19:17 dev

I know. Hence the question. :-)

> Do we have a stray case where MacPorts not dropping privileges?

Changing build.cmd to 'id' says no.

> Does /dev/null still get deleted when run as a normal user instead of root/macports?

Good question; someone should totally try it out.

- Josh


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