Bug#968199: Set up /dev/stdin and others

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:51:05 +0200, Matti Palmström wrote:

> Since udev don't set up /dev/stdin and others any longer
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/6b2229c6c60d0486 could this be
> moved to sysvinit-core (or similar package widely used) for those of us who
> don't use systemd?

Thanks for filing this bug; I was also bitten by #967546 after a
reboot and by all kind of fun with a missing /dev/fd.

FWIW, a temporary workaround seems to be something like

ln -sf /proc/self/fd /dev/fd
ln -sf fd/0 /dev/stdin
ln -sf fd/1 /dev/stdout
ln -sf fd/2 /dev/stderr

And I guess this should technically go into the initscripts package
and not sysvinit-core. - /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh and
/etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh do similar things currently …

Cheers,
gregor

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