Modifying init to create /dev/console ?

[Robert Schwebel]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 11:46:49PM +0100, Robin Farine wrote:
> By creating a /dev/console device node in the NFS exported 
> filesystem ?

Well, for example in PTXdist, we let a user build a root filesystem for
an embedded system. And having to create root/dev/{console,null} is one
of the rare cases which can only be done with root permissions at the
moment, so being able to get rid of that step would be a good thing.

Robert 
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