[Bug 2116973] Re: mknod doesn't respect --mode argument

[Julian Andres Klode]

It's not clear to me where that mknod call is supposed to be coming
from. It's supposed to be fixed now but the issue still happens in
sbuild (with schroot backend)

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Title:
  mknod doesn't respect --mode argument

Status in coreutils:
  Unknown
Status in livecd-rootfs package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in rust-coreutils package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  root at q-mknod:~# rm null
  root at q-mknod:~# mknod --mode 0666 null c 1 3
  root at q-mknod:~# l null
  crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 3 Jul 15 18:36 null

  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 14 09:16 /usr/bin/mknod -> coreutils

  
  This is making livecd-rootfs an FTBFS[1] (see all the permission denied errors when writing to /dev/null):

  dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
   debian/rules clean
  dh clean
  sh: 1: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
     dh_clean
   debian/rules binary
  dh binary
  sh: 1: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
     dh_update_autotools_config
  (...)
  dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
   debian/rules clean
  dh clean
  sh: 1: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
     dh_clean
   debian/rules binary
  dh binary
  sh: 1: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
     dh_update_autotools_config

  
  1. https://launchpadlibrarian.net/805275144/buildlog_ubuntu-questing-amd64.livecd-rootfs_25.10.12_BUILDING.txt.gz

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