On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, der Mouse wrote:

> > 	[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?
> 
	All except 2 (but that would be too easy).
	I'd probably have to use MAKEDEV - also since / will not be
	mounted r/w it would have to do the same dance as in the current
	msdosfs case by creating an mfs


> (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.)
> 



		David/absolute