Reyk Floeter <[email protected]> wrote: >On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Mark Kettenis ><[email protected]> wrote: >> But currently /dev/tunN is usable from any programming language that >> that can do reads and writes. With Reyk's changes you need to do an >> ioctl even for basic usage, which is at best quirky in languages >other >> than C/C++. That feels like a step backward to me. > >OK, I didn't think about VPN services written in node.js... > >I'm just kidding, but can you give me any examples of programs using >tun that are written in an arbitrary language other than C/C++?
I use(d) to use shell redirection of type "su alexander -c qemu ... 3<>/dev/tun2" to let root open the tun device but run qemu as unpriv user.
