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 c

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

Re: devfs question

2001-10-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Garrett Wollman w rites: >< 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 d

Re: devfs question

2001-10-27 Thread Garrett Wollman
< 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 does the right then when hand-crafting the `init' process to ensu

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 a

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,

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 ? > > M