Date: 29 Oct 2001 14:19:52 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs question Message-ID: <xzpu1wir3bb.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <10460.1004168165@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <10460.1004168165@critter.freebsd.dk>
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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. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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