[BusyBox] Serious bug in find_mount_point.c

[Rainer Weikusat]

Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> writes:
> On Friday 11 March 2005 05:21 pm, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
>> Brent Roman <brent at mbari.org> writes:
>> > Guess what?
>> >
>> > The fedora 2 box has no /dev/root !!
>>
>> Hmm ... why do you think it should?
>
> Because it's in the linux device list?
>
> http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/devices-2.6+.txt
>
> Block major 4, minor 0.

 4 block	Aliases for dynamically allocated major devices to be used
		when its not possible to create the real device nodes
		because the root filesystem is mounted read-only.

                0 = /dev/root

[...]

     	Locally defined links

	The following links may be established locally to conform to
	the configuration of the system.  This is merely a tabulation
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
	of existing practice, and does not constitute a
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	recommendation.  However, if they exist, they should have the
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	following uses.

[...]

	/dev/root	root device	symbolic	Current root filesystem
	/dev/swap	swap device	symbolic	Current swap device