[BusyBox] help with bb login please.

[Manuel Novoa III]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 05:26:25PM -0400, Frank R Callaghan wrote:
> I guess I'm buggered then ! since I need /dev/null word-writeable
> for login !?

Well, the failure you're seeing is just an artifact of how I implemented
asprintf in uClibc.  I needed an initialized file struct and took the
lazy way out by simply opening /dev/null.  Fixing that is way down on
my TODO list because lots of other things will break unexpectedly if
/dev/null isn't world readable/writeable.

> Is there any other solution I can try ?

You can create a small ram filesystem (ramdisk, tempfs, etc), unpack a
dev tree on it, and mount it on /dev.  This holds for flash filesystems
to since you don't really want to waste flash writes just to update
perms on /dev entries.

Manuel