Re: udev for /dev

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Friday 20 February 2004 11:58 am, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > First question, isn't there a script for rebuilding the /dev directory?
>
> If it's to rebuild the static /dev that came with your
> distribution, reinstall the appropriate package. Probably
> dev-*.

or just run `MAKEDEV generic-i386` in /dev/

> > Second issue, I was forced to put a single device,
> > /dev/console into /dev to make this work. I discovered this
> > because I had deleted all of the common nodes out of /dev.
> > Apparently it needs to be there in the transition from initrd
> > to the boot device. Can this be avoided? This is a real mess
> > if you delete /dev/console. I spent a couple of hours with my
> > rescue disk before I figured out what happened.
>
> The same here. init needs it.

no, no one *needs* it ... i think i posted an e-mail here about it before but 
it's only 'needed' if you want to see output before the *getty apps are 
started.  the kernel will open that device node before executing init so that 
init will have the proper stdout file descriptor to write to.  if you dont 
have /dev/console, the kernel prints the warning about not being able to open 
it, and then just runs init which works *fine* without the node.
-mike

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