udev

[Elan Ruusamäe]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 09:06, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> On Thursday 05 January 2006 00:18, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 23:04, Jakub Piotr Cłapa wrote:
> > > > but today this trick didn't work because i couldn't send any input to
> > > > started shell!!!, i guess this is because my /dev is empty and no
> > > > udev started.
> > >
> > > Your dev should not be empty (there are at least static /dev/null and
> > > /dev/console from the udev rpm package)
> >
> > it's empty because /sbin/start_udev just created tmpfs on /dev. and it's
> > hunging in udevstart process.
>
> Maybe just add mknod stuff in start_udev to always have null and console
> entries there?
seems like great idea.

and it does make those nodes, plus some more if MAKEDEV is installed, which i 
didn't have there.

btw it copies /etc/udev/devices also only if makedev installed, but doing cp 
-a can be acomlished without MAKEDEV

-- 
glen