Re: stack protection

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:39:21AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > Which means you need about 1000000 device nodes so you can boot of any
> > of the 65536 disks you could have connected?
> 
> Why?
> 
> The kernel currently has hardcoded logic to convert the root=... string
> into a major,minor number, it doesn't use /dev for this.
> 
> Once user space has started, it can populate /dev as required.
> 
> Or did I miss something here?

Depending on the size of udev it might be on the initrd or not.
If its not then you need a lot of /dev entries to mount the real root
device and get udev started or a extra script that created node on the
fly from /proc/something.

Might burden the installer.

Mfg
Goswin