On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 02:15:44PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote: > 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.
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? Martin
