In article <[email protected]>, Martin Husemann <[email protected]> wrote: >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?
I don't get it either. christos
