Weird chmod behaviour

[walt]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Andreas Hauser wrote:

> wa1ter wrote @ Sat, 20 Nov 2004 06:51:58 -0800:
>
> > Both times I fixed the problem by doing 'MAKDEV all' by hand,
> > so it doesn't look like there is anything wrong with MAKEDEV or
> > chmod.  Could this have to do with the environment in which
> > MAKEDEV is run during the upgrade target?

> running MAKDEV by hand also does this sometimes here...

Ah, I didn't know that -- this sounds a bit like a name cache thing,
maybe?