Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:23:39 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs question Message-ID: <14528.1004361819@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "29 Oct 2001 14:19:52 %2B0100." <xzpu1wir3bb.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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In message <xzpu1wir3bb.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> writes: >> In message <20011026222548.L88389-100000@achilles.silby.com>, 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 /dev, how do you plan to open the console ? >> >> Mkdir(/dev) isn't an option because the rootfs is mounted R/O. > >You could modify devfs so it can be union-mounted on top of /; or you >could hack namei to return a fake vnode for /dev so it's always >present. Right, but then again, I could also stay sane :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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