In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Silbersack >writes: >> > 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. > >You could modify devfs so it can be union-mounted on top of /; or you >could hack namei to return a fake vnode for /dev so it's always >present.
Right, but then again, I could also stay sane :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message