[Nix-dev] /dev/shm inconsistency in chroot

[Shea Levy]

On 01/24/2014 05:16 AM, Sree Harsha Totakura wrote:
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> On 01/23/2014 08:56 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> We should not inherit /dev from the host system at all, but rather
>> create it from scratch with just the things we need.  IMO, that's
>> the only truly proper solution.
> We can try creating a fixed set of device nodes, for example:
> /dev/null, /dev/random, /dev/urandom, /dev/sda etc.  Has anyone tried
> this before?

Another option is to mount  a devtmpfs there, for systems which support it.

> Sree
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