Some systems abusively restrict mknod, even when the device node already
exists in /dev. This is unfortunate because it prevents systemd-nspawn
from creating the basic devices in /dev in the container.
This patch implements a workaround: when mknod fails, fallback on bind
mounts.
Additionally, /dev/console was created with a mknod with the same
major/minor as /dev/null before bind mounting a pts on it. This patch
removes the mknod and creates an empty regular file instead.
In order to test this patch, I used the following configuration, which I
think should replicate the system with the abusive restriction on mknod:
# grep devices /proc/self/cgroup
4:devices:/user.slice/restrict
# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/devices/user.slice/restrict/devices.list
c 1:9 r
c 5:2 rw
c 136:* rw
# systemd-nspawn --register=false -D .
v2:
- remove "bind", it is not needed since there is already MS_BIND
v3:
- fix error management when calling touch()
- fix lowercase in error message
Alban Crequy
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