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bootrc: let /boot/boot run in a more natural namespace

Mount /fd, /proc, /srv and /shr in initcode
and open /dev/cons instead of #c/cons.

This way, /boot/boot could theoretically be a rc-script
and there is less reliance on magic device characters.

--- a/sys/src/9/boot/bootrc

+++ b/sys/src/9/boot/bootrc

@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@

 bind /root /mnt/broot

 unmount /root

-bind -q '#σ' /shr

-bind -q '#d' /fd

-bind -q '#p' /proc

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 	bind -qa '#'^$i /dev

--- a/sys/src/9/port/initcode.c

+++ b/sys/src/9/port/initcode.c

@@ -7,15 +7,21 @@

 #include <u.h>

 #include <libc.h>

-char cons[] = "#c/cons";

+char cons[] = "/dev/cons";

 char boot[] = "/boot/boot";

 char dev[] = "/dev";

 char c[] = "#c";

+char d[] = "#d";

 char e[] = "#e";

 char ec[] = "#ec";

+char p[] = "#p";

 char s[] = "#s";

-char srv[] = "/srv";

+char σ[] = "#σ";

 char env[] = "/env";

+char fd[] = "/fd";

+char proc[] = "/proc";

+char srv[] = "/srv";

+char shr[] = "/shr";

 void

 startboot(char*, char **argv)

@@ -22,14 +28,17 @@

 {

 	char buf[200];	/* keep this fairly large to capture error details */

-	/* in case boot is a shell script */

-	open(cons, OREAD);

-	open(cons, OWRITE);

-	open(cons, OWRITE);

 	bind(c, dev, MAFTER);

+	bind(d, fd, MREPL);

 	bind(ec, env, MAFTER);

 	bind(e, env, MCREATE|MAFTER);

+	bind(p, proc, MREPL);

 	bind(s, srv, MREPL|MCREATE);

+	bind(σ, shr, MREPL);

+

+	open(cons, OREAD);

+	open(cons, OWRITE);

+	open(cons, OWRITE);

 	exec(boot, argv);