devices created as files

[James Hunt]

The s-i archives that u-d-f unpacks specify the contents of /dev. However, running the following on a snappy system gives unexpected results:

ubuntu@localhost:~$ ls -l /dev|grep ^-|wc -l
0
ubuntu@localhost:~$ ls -l /dev|egrep "^(b|c)"|wc -l
181

ubuntu@localhost:~$ sudo mount -obind / /mnt
ubuntu@localhost:~$ ls -l /mnt/dev/|grep ^-|wc -l
80
ubuntu@localhost:~$ ls -l /mnt/dev/|egrep "^(b|c)"|wc -l
0

The real files in /dev "underneath" the devtmpfs mount are files, not char and block devices as they should be.