[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#851427: sysvinit makes /dev/shm a symlink to /run/shm, should be other way round

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Sat Jan 14 23:13:30 UTC 2017


On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 at 21:50:43 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 09:15:42PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > Expected result:
> > 
> > * /dev/shm is a tmpfs
> 
> and /dev/shm is owned by root:root and has perms 1755?

No, it should have the ownership and permissions that are the default
for tmpfs filesystems (root:root 01777), the same as a correctly
configured /tmp or /var/tmp.

$ ls -ld /dev/shm
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 220 Jan 14 20:44 /dev/shm

Regards,
    S



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