Actually, it's far easier to just configure your kernel to automatically
mount devfs on /dev before init gets started, and this becomes a
non-problem.
David McCabe wrote:
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Hello!
I have been using devfs for a while, and initially set it up according
to Mr. Robbin's instructions
(http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs4.html). I'm going
through my system and reconfiguring everything (as a do every six months
or so because I get tired of all the cruft and want to apply everything
I've learned in the last six months).
And I noticed how annoying it is to have that init-wrapping script. I
researched the reason for its existence and found it to be slightly
absurd: init wants a working /dev before it starts so that it can create
a pipe called /dev/initctl, which it uses something like other programs
talking to it.
I'm using a SysV init (which is actually configured more BSD-like), but
I am really liking Gooch's simpleinit
(http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/boot-scripts/index.html).
I'm setting up some boot scripts for it at the moment.
I want to know, therefore, what prevents us from moving the initctl pipe
that init creates to some other location, such as /var? Then we could
simply put the devfs mounting and and /dev-state stuff at the very
beginning of our boot scripts, and not have the wrapper kluge. It would
be a one line patch on simpleinit.
Is there anything I don't understand that would make this impractical?
By the way, please CC any replies to my address, because I don't really
want to subscribe to this list, not being of any help to anyone, and not
needing a lot of help, etc.
Thanks!
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David McCabe
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Wrfhf ybirf lbh!
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