Surviving /dev/null disappearance

[Chuck Swiger]

Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> On 4/3/07, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Patch ld(1) to detect the condition and don't unlink the device node?
> 
> Yes, but there has to be a generic solution, so that
> we don't reinvent the wheel for every one of the
> thousands apps that may do this.
> 
> Isn't there some safety-net wrapper function that
> refuses to remove device nodes and maybe some other
> types of files?

Why not set a filesystem flag like schg on device nodes under a devfs tree...?

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-Chuck