Re: dynamically created /dev/null is a regular file

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20150626070723.GB683%mail.duskware.de@localhost>,
Martin Husemann  <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 02:15:44PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> On Jun 25, 12:06pm, brook%nmsu.edu@localhost (Brook Milligan) wrote:
>> -- Subject: Re: dynamically created /dev/null is a regular file
>> 
>> | On Jun 25, 2015, at 11:15 AM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> | > Why isn't MAKEDEV invoked with -f?
>> | 
>> | Are you asking why we don't apply a patch like the following?
>> 
>> Yes, that would "fix" broken device entries.
>
>I don't get it - we are talking about the case where init finds no 
>/dev/console, so it mounts a tmpfs on /dev and then (on the empty tmpfs)
>runs MAKEDEV ?
>
>Where does /dev/null get created if not inside MAKEDEV then? Or is
>the tmpfs mount failing?

I don't get it either.

christos