Hi, On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 04:34:06PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > So I decided to take a look to the script. I found that running a line > like device-table.pl::120 with fakeroot will create simple files, > while running them as root they were proper device nodes.
man fakeroot when you do something like mknod(1) which usually requires superuser permissions, what fakeroot does, is to actually create a normal file (it doesnt have the priviliges to create a real device node) and keep track of this file as a fake device node. so as long as you are within the fakeroot call every application will see as a device node whatever you created with mknod. While outside of it, it is just a normal file. as said, above, for more information read the manpage. cheers, josch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110712195616.GA2860@hoothoot
