Re: repeated failure to properly shutdown

[Michael Plass <mfpnb%plass-family.net@localhost>]

On Jul 22, 2016, at 5:02 PM, Robert Elz wrote:

> the question is just where is that first attempt.

Hmm, it looks like doing "shutdown now" to get into single-user will force-unmount
the tmpfs file systems (/etc/rc.d/swap1), so you could be left in a state where
creating a regular /dev/null becomes all too easy.


As an aside, while testing out things I also noticed that MAKEDEV tries to use $MKNOD
in create_mfs_dev(), but this is only set if the -m switch is supplied. So the attempt
to make a temporary console fails.

Thanks,
- Michael