On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >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. > > About the only thing one could do is make init exit(bla) and get > a diagnostic from the kernel. It may make sense to do that. An error message would be sufficient; my concern was that someone might run into this and spend hours trying to figure out which of X variables was the problem. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
