[lxc-devel] call to setup_dev_symlinks with lxc.autodev

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting William Dauchy (wdauchy at gmail.com):
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> > Ok...  Now I see what you're doing.  Thank you.
> >
> > When your initial scripts create the system disk image and populate
> > the /dev directory, why are they not creating those symlinks.  They are
> > required per the kernel's Documentation/devices.txt doc.  They're listed
> > in the "Compulsory" section meaning your custom image is not in
> > compliance with the Linux kernel documentation (i.e. broken).
> 
> hm. I said in a previous post they are already created.
> the symlink function is just not returning EEXIST unless I'm listing
> the directory.

That's the intriguing part :)

So what does /dev look like on the physical media?