mdev

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Sunday 01 November 2009 16:25, Vladimir Dronnikov wrote:
> >> 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?

Ok, done. Anything to make you happy :D
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vda