Re: [PATCH] Console: fall back to /dev/null when no console is availlable

[Herbert Xu]

Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> 
> The reason the rm/mknod isn't really safe is because if either of them
> generate an error message, they'll go wherever fd2 is pointing (which is
> the problem we're trying to solve, and a major bootstrap problem).

Just close them before you start:

exec <&- >&- 2>&-
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