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Date:      Sat, 03 Feb 2001 20:35:17 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DEVFS newbie... 
Message-ID:  <14760.981228917@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Feb 2001 12:32:50 MST." <200102031932.f13JWo961621@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <200102031932.f13JWo961621@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes:
>In message <200102031748.f13HmuW44694@mobile.wemm.org> Peter Wemm writes:
>: As bizzare as it sounds, I like Julian's hack for populating this stuff...
>: ie: use a hard link to propagate nodes to the jailed /dev.
>: 
>: eg: mount -t devfs -o empty /home/jail/dev
>: ln /dev/null /home/jail/dev/null
>: ln /dev/zero /home/jail/dev/zero
>: ...
>: mount -u -o ro /home/jail/dev
>
>But you can't do hard links accross file systems.  Or is that a hack
>of devfs to allow it, [...]

Yes, it was a hack, and it will not be hacked that way in my DEVFS.

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