Re: devfs question

2001-10-29 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Silbersack writes: Oops, error on my part; /proc does need to exist. So, I guess the question is this: Can devfs's error handling in the case of /dev being non-existant be improved? Barely, because without

Re: devfs question

2001-10-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Silbersack writes: Oops, error on my part; /proc does need to exist. So, I guess the question is this: Can devfs's error handling in the case of /dev

Re: devfs question

2001-10-27 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Oops, error on my part; /proc does need to exist. So, I guess the question is this: Can devfs's error handling in the case of /dev being non-existant be improved? Barely, because without /dev, how do you plan to open the console ?

Re: devfs question

2001-10-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Silbersack w rites: On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Oops, error on my part; /proc does need to exist. So, I guess the question is this: Can devfs's error handling in the case of /dev being non-existant be improved? Barely, because without

Re: devfs question

2001-10-27 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: An error message would be sufficient; my concern was that someone might run into this and spend hours trying to figure out which of X variables was the problem. Right, but the only way to get an error message is to let /sbin/init die and have

Re: devfs question

2001-10-27 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:32:07 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Right, but the only way to get an error message is to let /sbin/init die and have the kernel print the message. /sbin/init cannot print the message when there is no /dev/console can it ? Yes, it can, if the kernel

Re: devfs question

2001-10-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Garrett Wollman w rites: On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:32:07 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Right, but the only way to get an error message is to let /sbin/init die and have the kernel print the message. /sbin/init cannot print the message when there