device entries outside /proc with procfs (for chroot)

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Sep 19 10:19:01 PDT 2005


In message <20050919130810.A41848 at cons.org>, Martin Cracauer writes:
>I noticed the creation of /dev/ entries outside of /dev doesn't work
>anymore.  This is needed for chroot environments, which rely on
>/dev/null on a regular basis.

mount -t devfs foo /chroot/dev

Consider devfs(8) rules as a filtering method.

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