From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 29 5:24:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3644E37B406 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 05:24:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9TDNd914530; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:23:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Mike Silbersack , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs question In-Reply-To: Your message of "29 Oct 2001 14:19:52 +0100." Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:23:39 +0100 Message-ID: <14528.1004361819@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp 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