special devices support

Neulinger, Nathan R. nneul@umr.edu
Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:43:01 -0600


Not currently. It's a pretty scary thought regardless. 

My guess is it wouldn't be hard to implement, but would have to be treated
like setuid - only admin could create them, and you'd have to have a
SuidCells equivalent for device support.

-- Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patty OReilly [mailto:oreilly@qualcomm.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 6:40 PM
> To: info-afs@transarc.com
> Subject: special devices support
> 
> 
> Is is possible to create special devices in AFS space?
> This is need for chroot'd environments. 
> 
> --patty 
>