Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 04:27:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: devfs question Message-ID: <20011027042527.T88536-100000@achilles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <10460.1004168165@critter.freebsd.dk>
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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 ? > > Mkdir(/dev) isn't an option because the rootfs is mounted R/O. > > About the only thing one could do is make init exit(bla) and get > a diagnostic from the kernel. It may make sense to do that. 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. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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