Weird chmod behaviour

[walt]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>
> :
> :> 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?
>
>     Possibly, but the namecache doesn't cache permissions so I am somewhat
>     at a loss until we home in on the problem a bit more.

Hm.  After updating world/kernel just now I can't reproduce the problem
any more.  Just before rebooting I did 'make upgrade' four times and
got incorrect perms on /dev/null each time.  Maybe the problem has
been fixed already.