Subject: Re: init creating mfs /dev automatically
To: None <tech-misc@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-misc
Date: 12/29/1999 10:51:47
> 	[W]hat do people think about adding code to init to check for
> 	the existance of /dev/console, and if not present,
> 	automatically create it?

How do you propose to have it know what major/minor to give it?  Or is
it "0 0" on every port?

(It doesn't address the same need, but I'd like to see /kern/consdev, a
la /kern/rootdev.  Perhaps someday I'll do that.)

					der Mouse

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