From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
To: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Joshua Brindle <method@gentoo.org>, SE-Linux <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: udev and .dev...
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:15:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040729201519.GH9950@lkcl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1091110451.7878.87.camel@icampbell-debian>
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 03:14:11PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 13:32, Joshua Brindle wrote:
> > Why not have a minimal /dev for init and friends and mount the ramfs for
> > udev on top of it? it's much easier to deal with 1 /dev and this is
> > pretty standard anyway.
>
> I believe what happens is that the on disk dev does live at /dev and the
> udev initscript bind mounts it to /.dev before mounting the rams over
> the top so that you can still get at the on disk version.
presumably in order to sort it out (for admin purposes)
and in this case, thank goodness for that, because otherwise
it would be necessary to terminate udev in order to set the
selinux permissions on the "real" /dev.
l.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-29 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-29 9:14 udev and .dev Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-07-29 12:32 ` Joshua Brindle
2004-07-29 14:01 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-07-29 14:14 ` Ian Campbell
2004-07-29 20:15 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [this message]
2004-07-29 15:09 ` Erich Schubert
2004-07-29 17:03 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-07-29 20:37 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-07-29 20:13 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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