Re: amd64 kernel, i386 userland

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 25 Jan 2014, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> > Perhaps you are thinking of some other scenario, but I am 
> > talking about the scenario that exists if you follow the 
> > steps in my first message, and do not follow the steps in my 
> > second message, and use a kernel that does not have options 
> > MAGICLINKS.  In such a case, any attempt to cd /dev or open 
> > /dev/console will fail, because /dev will be a dangling 
> > symlink.
>
> init should detect this (doesn't it already?) and mount a tmpfs 
> /dev.

init detects the absence of /dev/console, and tries to mount a 
tmpfs /dev, but the first step in that process is chdir("/dev"), 
which fails when /dev is a dangling symlink.

--apb (Alan Barrett)