On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 dsl@netbsd.org wrote:

: State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
: State-Changed-By: dsl
: State-Changed-When: Mon Dec 1 21:32:51 UTC 2003
: State-Changed-Why:
: init.main will create an MFS /dev if /dev/console is absent.

While this does implement *one* of the cases mentioned in 7170, I wouldn't
say that this completely fixes the bug in question, as a MFS /dev requires a
valid /dev/MAKEDEV containing information about /dev/console.  It also
requires that the running kernel have MFS compiled in, which may not be the
case in a low memory flash disk based embedded system.

It certainly doesn't help if someone hosed *all* of /dev, which is part of
the point of kern/7170:  to add some way that you can get to /bin/sh even if
/dev is hosed altogether.  Since the kernel does in fact "know" what the
console major/minor is, it shouldn't be a problem to have it roll a file
descriptor onto 0/1/2 before running init.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>