Package: udev
Version: 0.054-3
Severity: minor

When udev creates /dev/.static/dev, it then changes the permissions on
/dev/.static to 700.  This means that every time a regular user does a
df they get something like this:

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             15757280   5177548   9779296  35% /
tmpfs                   452740         0    452740   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3            156277644  88684756  61242084  60% /home
df: `/dev/.static/dev': Permission denied
none                     10240      2600      7640  26% /dev

My understanding is that /dev/.static/dev is only supposed to be used
by MAKEDEV to access the real /dev, but locking the permissions out
causes the above cosmetic annoyance.  Is there any chance that it could
be changed to use more open permissions, perhaps 711 or 755?


-- Package-specific info:
-- /etc/udev/rules.d/:
/etc/udev/rules.d/:
total 0
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root root 19 2004-12-04 18:28 cd-aliases.rules -> 
../cd-aliases.rules
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 13 2004-08-25 17:50 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root root 12 2005-02-17 17:15 z_hal-plugdev.rules -> ../hal.rules

-- /sys/:
/sys/block/fd0/dev
/sys/block/hda/dev
/sys/block/loop0/dev
/sys/block/loop1/dev
/sys/block/loop2/dev
/sys/block/loop3/dev
/sys/block/loop4/dev
/sys/block/loop5/dev
/sys/block/loop6/dev
/sys/block/loop7/dev
/sys/block/sda/dev
/sys/block/sda/sda1/dev
/sys/block/sda/sda2/dev
/sys/block/sda/sda3/dev
/sys/block/sda/sda4/dev
/sys/class/graphics/fb0/dev
/sys/class/graphics/fb1/dev
/sys/class/input/event0/dev
/sys/class/input/event1/dev
/sys/class/input/mice/dev
/sys/class/input/mouse0/dev
/sys/class/misc/agpgart/dev
/sys/class/misc/psaux/dev
/sys/class/misc/rtc/dev
/sys/class/nvidia/nvidia0/dev
/sys/class/nvidia/nvidiactl/dev
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg0/dev
/sys/class/sound/adsp/dev
/sys/class/sound/audio/dev
/sys/class/sound/controlC0/dev
/sys/class/sound/dsp/dev
/sys/class/sound/mixer/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0p/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D1c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D1p/dev
/sys/class/sound/timer/dev
/sys/class/video4linux/video0/dev

-- Kernel configuration:
 isapnp_init not present.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.2
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages udev depends on:
ii  hotplug                  0.0.20040329-19 Linux Hotplug Scripts
ii  initscripts              2.86.ds1-1      Standard scripts needed for bootin
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  makedev                  2.3.1-77        creates device files in /dev
ii  sed                      4.1.4-2         The GNU sed stream editor

-- debconf information:
  udev/devfs-warning:
* udev/reboot-warning:

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