Re: Location of shmfs; devfs automagics

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 00:27:10 EST


> The reason for this is to have _something_ on fd 0,1,2 when starting
> init even if the kernel was unable to open an initial console, since
> a lot of applications break otherwise, they don't expect

The kernel is not responsible for making broken apps work. Period

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