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Date:      Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:51:11 +0400
From:      "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Maxim Sobolev" <sobomax@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Surviving /dev/null disappearance
Message-ID:  <cb5206420704040151w3c4f32f7gfd4aa017d40a1199@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46128475.9060602@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <cb5206420704030216r44243573h7981c1e35ef7225@mail.gmail.com> <46128475.9060602@FreeBSD.org>

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On 4/3/07, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Patch ld(1) to detect the condition and don't unlink the device node?

Yes, but there has to be a generic solution, so that
we don't reinvent the wheel for every one of the
thousands apps that may do this.

Isn't there some safety-net wrapper function that
refuses to remove device nodes and maybe some other
types of files?



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