Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 13:16:41 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: "FreeBSD Current" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Surviving /dev/null disappearance Message-ID: <cb5206420704030216r44243573h7981c1e35ef7225@mail.gmail.com>
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While porting mtpaint I stumbled upon a hacked up configure script which has a test like this: ld -o /dev/null <some libs> If you run this under root the net result is you don't have /dev/null anymore. I fixed the configure script, writing to temp files instead of /dev/null, but the question is, how can I survive the situation. Without /dev/null very little works. You can mount a second devfs over the first one, but half of the programs running in the background (e.g. wmii) are still freaked out bad. So is there a way to revive the system without a reboot? (hint: /etc/rc.d/dev* scripts refuse to work without /dev/null)
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