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Bug 538980 - sys-apps/portage: validate /dev
Summary: sys-apps/portage: validate /dev
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Keywords: InVCS
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Blocks: 484436
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Reported: 2015-02-05 21:43 UTC by Zac Medico
Modified: 2015-03-04 21:22 UTC (History)
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Description Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2015-02-05 21:43:46 UTC
If /dev isn't proper, it can lead to all kinds of odd failures. Therefore, it would be useful to validate /dev and and bail out early if appropriate. Two simple tests come to mind:

1) test that /dev/null is a device
2) test that bash process substitution works (relies on /dev/fd), using a simple test like [[ $(< <(echo foo) ) == foo ]]
Comment 1 Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-02-13 12:56:27 UTC
"Portage development" is a bit wide. Do you have something more specific in mind?
Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2015-02-13 16:26:06 UTC
If we just do this check when emerge starts up, then that should be sufficient. We could call it from inside the profile_check function, or close to where that function is called, inside pym/_emerge/main.py.
Comment 3 Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-02-13 18:13:19 UTC
Patch posted for review: <http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/cutoff=5221>.
Comment 5 Brian Dolbec (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-03-04 21:22:52 UTC
Released in portage-2.2.18