Re: dynamically created /dev/null is a regular file

[Brook Milligan]

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?

-- sbin/init.c.orig     2015-06-25 12:02:34.000000000 -0600
+++ sbin/init.c 2015-06-25 12:03:28.000000000 -0600
@@ -1709,7 +1709,7 @@
                        (void)execl(INIT_BSHELL, "sh",
                            access("./MAKEDEV", X_OK) == 0
                                ? "./MAKEDEV" : "/etc/MAKEDEV",
-                           "-MM", "init", NULL); 
+                           "-MM", "-f", "init", NULL); 
                _exit(10);
                /* NOTREACHED */
 
Cheers,
Brook