Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:33:52 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: bf20761@binghamton.edu Cc: julian@whistle.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More questions on DEVFS Message-ID: <199811122233.OAA20678@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.L3.93.981112115703.7465B-100000@bingsun1> from zhihuizhang at "Nov 12, 98 12:17:18 pm"
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zhihuizhang writes: > I have a couple of questions on DEVFS which is hard to figure out from the > source code: > > (1) As I understand it, special files can be created only by superuser via > mknod and file systems can only be mounted by superuser. I do not see any > reason why the superuser will mount the device file system multiple times > and possibly at different mount points. You might want to create a chroot()'d sub-space of your filesystem, and put devices in there for example.. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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