Bug 22809

Summary:	devfsd fails if devfsd.conf contains GLOBAL
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Alex Yacoub <ayacoub>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Dave Jones <davej>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	1.0	CC:	pfrields
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Description Alex Yacoub 2000-12-24 22:02:45 UTC

If the devfsd.conf file contains a line with a CFUNCTION (or presumably
MFUNCTION) event and the path is set to GLOBAL, then devfsd segfaults.  As
an example:

REGISTER
misc/psaux
CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink $devname mouse
UNREGISTER
misc/psaux
CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink mouse

One or both of those lines (I've tested each one alone) fails.  However,
changing the action fixes the problem and changing "GLOBAL" to
"/lib/libc.so.6" fixes the problem as well.

I do not know if this is a defsd/kernel error or a redhat error, and I
apologize for not trying to find out, but I assume you guys are better
equipped to make that decision.

BTW, I'm using devfsd-2.4.0-0.43.4 with a custom kernel from the rawhide
sources of the same version.