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Date:      Sat, 6 Apr 1996 17:34:19 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: devfs questions
Message-ID:  <199604070034.RAA28746@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199604061327.PAA00612@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 6, 96 03:27:15 pm

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> I've started playing with devfs.  Find below a patch to init(8) that
> should allow the system to come up with an empty /dev directory as
> long as devfs is statically available in the kernel.  It tries to
> mount /dev early in the game, before the first device node
> (/dev/console) is about to be accessed.  I've at least been able to
> run the single-user shell with it.

I still think that devfs should export the root directory and a dev
directory and be mounted in the kernel.

I think it is a bad thing to chang init this way.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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