David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> writes:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 09:59:51PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
>> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, David Laight wrote:
>> > sysinst could arrange to run makedev chroot'ed into the target filestem.
>> > Then it would run in installed pax.
>> 
>> sysinst could just pass "-p /mnt/bin/pax"; no need to chroot.
>
> No that won't work.
> You need to chroot in order to find ld.elf_so

One could trivially change mknod to take a list of devices to make and
get much the same effect as all of this. The reason the pax trick
saves time is that you're getting rid of lots of execs.

Perry