Odd /dev/null & /dev/random behavior

[slycat]

This was originally pointed out in the PLX Update thread but no real progress has been made. User azraleus found a work-around, but AFAIK this only affects transmission-daemon users.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'chmod 777 /dev/null
rm /dev/random
rm /dev/urandom
mknod -m 666 /dev/random c 1 8
mknod -m 666 /dev/urandom c 1 9
')
While I guess it could be labelled as "works for me" I was wondering if this has any effect on other processes or if there is a possible solution to alleviate this work-around.

[Onnline]

Thanks Azraleus for that! Though I end up using the solution from the topic '/dev/* permissions' a few days back. I am building my server from scratch (roof fs 06 2012) with the workaround in rc.local in place, so far samba, transmission and sabnzb seem to run fine. I am a QA person, so mostly don't add much to the technical solution, just the observations