Hi,
I tried to use cpio rather than tar to save the state of /dev, but it
failed on all the symlinks. The reason is pretty simple:
lstat("/dev/ide/hd/c0b0t0u0p5", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0555, st_size=0, ...}) =0
^
readlink("/dev/ide/hd/c0b0t0u0p5", 0x8055de0, 0) = -1 EINVAL
^
Fix attached.
J
--- 2.3/fs/devfs/base.c Wed Apr 12 16:08:50 2000
+++ local-2.3/fs/devfs/base.c Thu Apr 13 11:05:27 2000
@@ -2228,6 +2228,9 @@
inode->i_fop = &devfs_fops;
} else if (S_ISLNK(di->mode)) {
inode->i_op = &devfs_symlink_iops;
+
+ if (di->de->registered)
+ inode->i_size = strlen(di->de->u.symlink.linkname);
} else {
inode->i_fop = &devfs_fops;
}
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