Re: [bug] /etc/profile: line 30: /dev/null: Permission denied (Was: Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs maintenance disaster)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 
> With that patch, I can login as a normal user without any udev ever
> started, and no static content copied to /dev.

I think this is something to aim for as a goal. 

No, it may not be a /dev you'd want to use normally, but from a robustness 
and stability angle, having a policy that says "we should aim to _work_ 
even without udev running at all, even if you don't get the frills". So at 
that point devtmpfs actually offers users something.

			Linus
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