On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Jukka Salmi wrote:

> Marcin Jessa --> current-users (2005-06-30 17:07:02 +0200):
>> Hi.
>>
>> I dont know if it's a bug but when I manually create console device in empty /dev on a drive with mknod console c 0 0 then boot that drive, init does not create any new devices in /dev. I did not test it creating any other devices.
>> Kernel version 3.99.6.
>
> This is not a bug. Read src/sbin/init/init.c:
>
> static int
> mfs_dev(void)
> {
> [...]
>        /* If we have /dev/console, assume all is OK  */
>        if (access(_PATH_CONSOLE, F_OK) != -1)
>                return(0);
>

 	There is definitely a bug in the init(8) manpage for not
 	describing the fact it will create an mfs and run MAKEDEV
 	on it if /dev/console is not found....

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