Re: [Leaf-devel] Device files in /tmp

2001-02-17 Thread Jack Coates
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Re: [Leaf-devel] Device files in /tmp

2001-02-17 Thread ssrat
On 17 Feb 2001, at 6:49, Jack Coates wrote: I'd be inclined to stick to your existing system -- it seems sick and wrong to put device files in /tmp and I don't understand what they'd be doing there instead of /dev. There may well be a good reason (permissions? why not chmod the /dev entry?)

Re: [Leaf-devel] Device files in /tmp

2001-02-17 Thread Jack Coates
what, having device files in the root? Seems good to me, or rather, I don't see what's wrong with it. If you or the program have permissions and access to mknod you can stick a device file anywhere in the filesystem I suppose. Seems to me their location in the filesystem is more a matter of

[Leaf-devel] Device files in /tmp

2001-02-16 Thread ssrat
I'm reconsidering the mount restriction I have for /tmp, which amounts to the fact that /tmp is mounted with the nodev option - preventing device files from being created. The reason I'm reconsidering is because it would seem that pdnsd also creates device files there. If I were to do this,