Re: Long-standing bugs and typos

Michael Neuffer (neuffer@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de)
Thu, 7 Mar 1996 02:44:50 +0100 (MET)

On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Johannes Kroeger wrote:
> Here is a small collection of bugs and typos that should be fixed before the
> next stable release.
>
> 2. Some files in /proc have wrong permissions:
>
> /proc/scsi% ls -li
> 256 -rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 0 Mar 5 20:03 scsi
> (It should be -r--r--r--, although writing to this file does nothing.

No, the permissions are correct. One of the things you can effect by
writing to /proc/scsi/scsi is the rescan for a new scsi device.

> The link count seems also wrong, there are no other /proc files with
inum 256.)

I have a fix for that which I'll send to Linus with my next set of patches.

Mike

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