Bug in 'mergemaster'?

["David S." <dgs@uclink.berkeley.edu>]

I've recently installed 2.8 on a couple systems, did "make build" in
'/usr/src', and updated '/etc', '/var', and '/dev' with 'mergemaster'
from http://sites.inka.de/mips/unix/mergemaster.shar.  In both cases,
'/dev/null' ended up with permissions 0600, rather than 0666.  Not a
big deal, and easy to fix, but it causes subtle problems.  Now,
'/dev/MAKEDEV' looks alright to me; line 229 is

	mknod null              c 2 2   ; chmod 666 null

So is there a bug in 'mergemaster'?  Anybody else using it?

David S.
dgjs@acm.org