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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: [PATCH]: Modifying init to create /dev/console and /dev/null
From:       "Wim Vinckier" <wimpunk () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-02-28 16:13:13
Message-ID: 5c43128e0702280813g243d0ab4n5bf5a688309a9dc6 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Nice, looks like the patch I just needed. :-)

On 2/28/07, Terry Barnaby <terry1@beam.ltd.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have decided to have a go and add support to init to create
> a tmpfs file system on /dev and the two main device nodes /dev/console
> and /dev/null if no /dev/console exists on the rootfs.
>
> This feature is enabled with the FEATURE_INIT_UDEV option.
>
> If this option is enabled and the file /dev/console does not exist then
> init will mount a tmpfs file system on /dev and create the basic device
> nodes /dev/console and /dev/null. This allows a system to boot and run
> without any device nodes in the root file system. The system startup
> scripts can create additional device nodes as needed or a full udev
> implementation can then take over.
>
> I am using this for my own system at the moment and thought I would
> release the patch for interest. This is probably not the best way to
> achieve the task in hand, but it does work well.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Terry
>
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