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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: devfs questions
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
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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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