Re: Location of shmfs; devfs automagics

From: David L. Nicol (david@kasey.umkc.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2000 - 16:13:25 EST


Alexander Viro wrote:
 
> Definitely. Plan 9 solution for devices is a bit awkward - the whole
> #<character> notation looks like a kludge, but idea that you don't want
> the whole /dev for everyone is _really_ sound. Example: for chroot jail
> you want /dev/zero and possibly /dev/random, etc., but you don't want
> /dev/hda there. Granularity should be better than all or nothing.

Huh? We have this capability now:

# ln /dev/xda6 ./glorp
# ls -l
total 0
brw-r----- 2 root disk 13, 6 May 5 1998 glorp

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