[OpenAFS-devel] device nodes...

[Derek Atkins]

The major problem with device-nodes is that devices are extremely
system-dependent.  That doesn't mean that I'm against them; I've found
a number of times when having a device node in AFS would be extremely
useful (e.g. building a RedHat installer disk).  But I can easily see
the original argument and can usually find workarounds for the cases
where I find I want to use device nodes in AFS.

-derek

"Neulinger, Nathan R." <nneul@umr.edu> writes:

> There was just a note on info-afs asking about devices in AFS. Obviously
> that doesn't work currently.
> 
> What would y'all think of trying to add support for system:administrators
> only having the ability to create device nodes in AFS (other than pipes) and
> adding a DevNodeCells file in /usr/vice/etc/ similar to SuidCells?
> 
> I think the logic would be the same - ThisCell only by default, but you
> could add others.
> 
> I haven't looked at the code much, but seems like it shouldn't be all that
> difficult to manage.
> 
> -- Nathan
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