mdev

Vladimir Dronnikov dronnikov at gmail.com
Sun Nov 1 15:25:25 UTC 2009


>
>> ELOOP
>> Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving pathname.
>
> mdev only creates /dev/<foo>

Wrong. /dev/what/ever/you/link/<foo> is ok. See build_alias(), which
calls bb_make_directory().

>> ENAMETOOLONG
>> pathname was too long.
>
> i guess if /dev was a symlink to /some/really/long/and/stupid/path/ this could
> happen, but it'd happen for pretty much all nodes once you hit the limit

Wrong again, since wrong is assumption on creating /dev/<foo> only.
And so on...

Instead of abstract logical exclusion (which can fail), may be let's
make mdev really solid?

Best regards,
--
Vladimir


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