On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 05:05:51PM +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> My argument is that executing linux binaries in an environment without
> properly populated /dev is a recipe for trouble and will one day come
> back with weird failures or improperly constructed images.

They'd hardly work at all.  Luckily the code also bind-mounts /dev
(and /sys and other things) from the appliance into the chroot first.

Rich.

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