[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#504877: Bug#504877: initscripts.postinst fails when run as non-privileged user on systems without /dev/shm or /dev/pts

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 07 Nov 2008, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> I think that initscripts.postinst should not fail if an attempt to
> create /dev/shm or /dev/pts fails.  Here's why:
> 
> One of the goals of debootstrap is that it can set up a system in
> "fakechroot" mode, where it is run as an entirely non-privileged user.
> In this mode, the "real" /dev is linked into the chroot'ed /dev, so
> that something that looks like real devices can be present during the
> install.

Key it on something that fakechroot defines in the environment, please.

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