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-rw-r--r--gnu/build/linux-boot.scm31
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm b/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm
index 787665e320..d1c9f47f33 100644
--- a/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm
+++ b/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
find-long-option
find-long-options
make-essential-device-nodes
+ make-hurd-device-nodes
make-static-device-nodes
configure-qemu-networking
@@ -323,6 +324,36 @@ one specific hardware device. These we have to create."
;; File systems in user space (FUSE).
(mknod (scope "dev/fuse") 'char-special #o666 (device-number 10 229)))
+(define* (make-hurd-device-nodes #:optional (root "/"))
+ "Make some of the nodes needed on GNU/Hurd."
+ (define (scope dir)
+ (string-append root
+ (if (string-suffix? "/" root)
+ ""
+ "/")
+ dir))
+
+ (mkdir (scope "dev"))
+ (for-each (lambda (file)
+ (call-with-output-file (scope file)
+ (lambda (port)
+ (chmod port #o666))))
+ '("dev/null"
+ "dev/zero"
+ "dev/full"
+ "dev/random"
+ "dev/urandom"))
+ ;; Don't create /dev/console, /dev/vcs, etc.: they are created by
+ ;; console-run on first boot.
+
+ (mkdir (scope "servers"))
+ (mkdir (scope "servers/socket"))
+ ;; Don't create /servers/socket/1 & co: runsystem does that on first boot.
+
+ ;; TODO: Set the 'gnu.translator' extended attribute for passive translator
+ ;; settings?
+ )
+
(define %host-qemu-ipv4-address
(inet-pton AF_INET "10.0.2.10"))