On Jun 25, 12:06pm, [email protected] (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.
christos
|
| -- 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
-- End of excerpt from Brook Milligan
