Can I open a special file with major/minor instead of name?

Dave Cinege (dcinege@psychosis.com)
Sun, 14 Jun 1998 03:16:30 -0400

This is the code in do_linuxrc():

(void) open("/dev/tty1",O_RDWR,0);

This is what I want to do:

(void) open( MKDEV(TTY_MAJOR,1) ,O_RDWR,0);

This is why:
I build all of /dev from /linuxrc, thus /dev/tty1 does not yet exist.
Right now I have a work around but this way would be cleaner.

static int do_linuxrc(void * shell)
{
static char *argv[] = { "linuxrc", NULL, };

close(0);close(1);close(2);
setsid();
(void) open("/dev/tty1",O_RDWR,0);
(void) dup(0);
(void) dup(0);
return execve(shell, argv, envp_init);
}

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