bug: udev does not create /dev/fd pseudo directory

[Dennis Veatch]

On Thursday 19 January 2006 15:31, Florin Braescu wrote:
> Pe data de Mie 18 Ian 2006 16:36, Dennis Veatch a scris:
> > On Tuesday 17 January 2006 18:59, sofar wrote:
> > > florin/others:
> > >
> > > udev does not create the /dev/fd symlink to /proc/self/fd, which is
> > > required by (amongst others) bash to do pipe-redirection. This needs to
> > > be fixed asap so that I can rollout 1.6.0-rc2.
> > >
> > > Auke
> >
> > I know enough about udev to hose it up. Having said that, at one time
> > those symlinks existed. Found this (granted it's old);
> >
> > http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/lunar-commits/2004-November/031415.html
> >
> > I don't suppose it's just a simple matter of? ;
> >
> >         ln -snf /proc/self/fd $udev_root/fd
> >         ln -snf /proc/self/fd/0 $udev_root/stdin
> >         ln -snf /proc/self/fd/1 $udev_root/stdout
> >         ln -snf /proc/self/fd/2 $udev_root/stderr
>
>   I think the best place of this is in the /etc/init.d/udev script.
>
>   Florin

A little more digging on my PCLinuxOS box and that is what they do florin. 
Well they call out another file from within their udev init script but you 
get the idea.

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