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Subject: Re: dynamically created /dev/null is a regular file
From: christos () astron ! com (Christos Zoulas)
Date: 2015-06-26 12:37:10
Message-ID: mmjh1m$9dg$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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In article <20150626070723.GB683@mail.duskware.de>,
Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 02:15:44PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> On Jun 25, 12:06pm, brook@nmsu.edu (Brook Milligan) wrote:
>> -- Subject: Re: dynamically created /dev/null is a regular file
>>
>> | On Jun 25, 2015, at 11:15 AM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> | > Why isn't MAKEDEV invoked with -f?
>> |
>> | Are you asking why we don't apply a patch like the following?
>>
>> Yes, that would "fix" broken device entries.
>
>I don't get it - we are talking about the case where init finds no
>/dev/console, so it mounts a tmpfs on /dev and then (on the empty tmpfs)
>runs MAKEDEV ?
>
>Where does /dev/null get created if not inside MAKEDEV then? Or is
>the tmpfs mount failing?
I don't get it either.
christos
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