sysvinit: add /dev/std{in, out, err} symlinks to inittab
authorJörg Krause <joerg.krause@embedded.rocks>
Wed, 4 Apr 2018 18:09:35 +0000 (20:09 +0200)
committerPeter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Tue, 1 May 2018 19:53:45 +0000 (21:53 +0200)
commit6919fc55660eafd1a55c2e8535cc9291c251faf5
treecb3dcb186c181e03aca25a077d08bb5c0c6a80fd
parent456ea9871ea015fe2c5a7eb79c4762787286fa56
sysvinit: add /dev/std{in, out, err} symlinks to inittab

Some applications, e.g. bashs process subsitution feature, rely on the
convention of `/dev/fd` being a symbolic link to `/proc/self/fd`.

This symbolic link and his companions `/dev/std*` are created by (e)udev [1],
but not by mdev, resulting in the following error when using the following
expression:

```
bash: /dev/fd/62: No such file or directory
```

For the sake of simplicity, lets fix this by creating the symlinks in inittab.
It is only really needed if eudev isn't used, but it doesn't really hurt to
create them even if eudev will recreate them afterwards.

Note, that we do not create the symlink `/dev/core` as `/proc/kcore` is
not available on all platforms, e.g. ARM, and the feature is not much
appreciated [2].

[1] https://github.com/gentoo/eudev/blob/8943501993322c59a6eb5be456b0d716aafff21e/src/shared/dev-setup.c#L35-L40
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/45315/

[Peter: redirect errors to /dev/null for ro rootfs]
Signed-off-by: Jörg Krause <joerg.krause@embedded.rocks>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
package/sysvinit/inittab