Re: dynamically created /dev/null is a regular file

[Brook Milligan <brook%nmsu.edu@localhost>]

On Jun 25, 2015, at 11:15 AM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> Why isn't MAKEDEV invoked with -f?

Are you asking why we don't apply a patch like the following?

-- sbin/init.c.orig	2015-06-25 12:02:34.000000000 -0600
+++ sbin/init.c	2015-06-25 12:03:28.000000000 -0600
@@ -1709,7 +1709,7 @@
 			(void)execl(INIT_BSHELL, "sh",
 			    access("./MAKEDEV", X_OK) == 0
 				? "./MAKEDEV" : "/etc/MAKEDEV",
-			    "-MM", "init", NULL); 
+			    "-MM", "-f", "init", NULL); 
 		_exit(10);
 		/* NOTREACHED */
 
Cheers,
Brook