[8497] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
RE: special devices support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neulinger, Nathan R.)
Tue Feb 20 14:51:33 2001
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From: "Neulinger, Nathan R." <nneul@umr.edu>
To: "'Patty OReilly'" <oreilly@qualcomm.com>, info-afs@transarc.com
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:43:01 -0600
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Not currently. It's a pretty scary thought regardless.
My guess is it wouldn't be hard to implement, but would have to be treated
like setuid - only admin could create them, and you'd have to have a
SuidCells equivalent for device support.
-- Nathan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patty OReilly [mailto:oreilly@qualcomm.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 6:40 PM
> To: info-afs@transarc.com
> Subject: special devices support
>
>
> Is is possible to create special devices in AFS space?
> This is need for chroot'd environments.
>
> --patty
>
