[gentoo-user] /dev/shm permissions drwxr-xr-x root:root ?

[Walter Dnes]

This may be related to me running mdev instead of udev.  I've been
using /dev/shm for creating and deleting scratch files, to speed things
up when processing photographs with automated scripts.  It used to work.
But now it no longer allows writes by anybody except root.  A couple of
days ago, I did a big update, which resulted in devpts having to be
explicitly mounted.  Since I run mdev instead of udev, the instruction
to "rc-update add udev-mount sysinit" doesn't work for me.  Instead I
put an explicit "mount devpts" in /etc/local.d/000.start, which handles
the automounting.  Anybody else seeing /dev/shm as root-only, or is this
an artifact of my weird setup?

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications