Gentoo compat /dev/null: No such file or directory

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Andrei Kolu <antik at bsd.ee> (from Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:03:40 +0300):

> Ühel kenal päeval (neljapäev 01 juuni 2006 10:47 pm) kirjutasid sa:
>> devfs onto /compat/linux/dev
>
> # mkdir /compat/linux/dev
> # mknod /compat/linux/dev/null c 2 2
> # chmod 666 /compat/linux/dev/null
> # mount -t devfs devfs /compat/linux/dev

Forget about the mknod invocation, it's not necessary. My mounting  
devfs on top on this directory, you hide the created device node.  
Apart from this, device nodes created with mknod don't work anymore,  
you have to use a real devfs.

Bye,
Alexander.

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