Modifying init to create /dev/console ?

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Wednesday 28 February 2007 11:37, Terry Barnaby wrote:
> Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> I have had a quick look at the busybox init, and it appears that if 
> there is not a /dev/console or /dev/null then it will not run any of the 
> scripts .... So /dev/console or /dev/null is required for init to run.
> 
> I am still thinking it would be best to add the ability for init to 
> create a basic /dev with /dev/console etc if these do not exist. This
> still appears a cleaner way of doing things to me at the moment ...
> This could be done internally or by calling an external script from
> init although it would be nice if /dev/console existed as early on as 
> possible to at-least get debug info from programs running.

kernel boored with: init=/somewhere/fix_dev.sh

fix_dev.sh:

#!/bin/sh
mknod ... /dev/....
exec /sbin/init "$@"

No hacking in init! :)

Do you see any problems with this approach?
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