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

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On Wednesday 24 Jun 2015 16:43:17 Brook Milligan wrote:
> I have been installing some -current systems (cvs from 201505311600Z to be
> exact) that dynamically construct /dev when booting.  This seems to be the
> default behavior of rc when /dev is effectively empty.  The problem is that
> /dev/null routinely ends up being a regular file not a device file.  How
> and when are the device files created and why is null created wrongly? 
> Could it have been created somehow before the rest of the devices are
> created dynamically?
> 
> Is this related to kern/33023?

My recent ERLITE install suffers from this as well.
The following script in rc.local helps, although it truly is the large hammer 
approach

Roy

if [ -c /dev/null ]; then
        echo "/dev/null does not need fixing!"
else
        echo "Fixing /dev/null"
        while true; do
                [ -c /dev/null ] && break
                rm /dev/null
                (cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV std)
        done
fi