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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: More questions on DEVFS
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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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:33:52 -0800 (PST)
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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

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