Comment 6 for bug 53040

Yes, It is a regular file:

# ls -l /dev/null
crw------- 1 root root 1, 3 2006-05-31 03:33 /dev/null

And after I issued the chmod 666 /dev/null command:

# ls -l /dev/null
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2006-05-31 03:33 /dev/null

Thanks!