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
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
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
< 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
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
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,
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