Modifying init to create /dev/console ?

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:22:25AM +0000, Terry Barnaby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to create a basic Linux system based on Busybox and would 
> like the ability to create the root file system as a normal user and 
> without any /dev entries. The startup script would create the /dev 
> entries as needed.
> However, init and other programs obviously require /dev/console (and 
> other /dev entries).

Are you using initramfs? You can create cpios with special files,
different owners and suid/sgid as normal user, using usr/gen_init_cpio.c
in the Linux source tree.

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lfr
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