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Description of problem:
MAKEDEV crashes when creating links.

For example:

[root@rsh /dev]# ./MAKEDEV sound
Segmentation fault (core dumped)



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
MAKEDEV-3.8.1-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. cd /dev
2. ./MAKEDEV sound

    

Actual Results:  Segmentation fault

Expected Results:  No segmentation fault

Additional info:

MAKEDEV is incorrectly attempting to lookup uid/gid with getpwnam when
processing a link entry from the makedev.d configuation files.

Link entries are created with the symlink call (cf MAKEDEV.c, line
358),  and are created with the processes uid/gid.

getpwnam is called to translate user and group names in the makedev.d
configuration files to uid/gid numbers, but link entries in the files
do not specify names as they are irrelevent. The situation is handled
corrently for 'alias' entries. MAKEDEV.c, lines 215-216:

    /* Determine the IDs of the owner and her group, if we'll need
them. */
            if ((flags & MANIFEST) || (entry->type == ALIAS) ||
(entry->type == LINK)) {

Adding " || (entry-type == LINK)" to the above line fixes the problem.

        if ((flags & MANIFEST) || (entry->type == ALIAS) ||
(entry->type == LINK)) {