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>

diff --git a/package/sysvinit/inittab b/package/sysvinit/inittab
index fad91eae8b5f0d6eac52c7983a5c47cb31bb7cf7..7eaef59d9e6281e60d976cf078f0544f650bf420 100644 (file)
--- a/package/sysvinit/inittab
+++ b/package/sysvinit/inittab
@@ -9,7 +9,11 @@ si1::sysinit:/bin/mount -o remount,rw /
 si2::sysinit:/bin/mkdir -p /dev/pts
 si3::sysinit:/bin/mkdir -p /dev/shm
 si4::sysinit:/bin/mount -a
-si5::sysinit:/bin/hostname -F /etc/hostname
+si5::sysinit:/bin/ln -sf /proc/self/fd /dev/fd 2>/dev/null
+si6::sysinit:/bin/ln -sf /proc/self/fd/0 /dev/stdin 2>/dev/null
+si7::sysinit:/bin/ln -sf /proc/self/fd/1 /dev/stdout 2>/dev/null
+si8::sysinit:/bin/ln -sf /proc/self/fd/2 /dev/stderr 2>/dev/null
+si9::sysinit:/bin/hostname -F /etc/hostname
 rcS:12345:wait:/etc/init.d/rcS
 
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