svn commit: r365643 - head/bin/cp

[Stefan Esser]

Am 23.09.20 um 19:23 schrieb Warner Losh> But for this issue, we're not 
mounting devfs early enough.  We should
> fix that. Removing /dev/null from the boot process likely is never going 
> to happen because we use it all over the place to discard output... 
> There's ~200 instances of it in the boot rc scripts, so getting rid of 
> it there would also be quite the effort, with the same question.

Removal of /dev/null from rc.d scripts should be quite simple,
since most cases could just use ">-" (close file descriptor)
instead. Other usage could be substituted with ":>" followed
by chown.

I'd be willing to generate patches for review, if there is any
chance such a change might be accepted into -CURRENT.

I could not find any use of /dev/zero, but e.g. rc.d/syscons
uses ${kbddev} (i.e. /dev/ttyv0) and rc.d/zvol performs swapon
on /dev/zvol/${name}, rc.d/random uses /dev/random and so on.

But those further references to /dev nodes will in general be
NOPs if /dev is not available (some test for existence of the
node they rely on, other just fail trying to access them, but
without negative effect on going multi-user).

Regards, STefan
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