special devices support

[Dr A V Le Blanc]

On Friday, February 16, 2001 at 6:40 PM, Patty OReilly
<oreilly@qualcomm.com> wrote:
> Is is possible to create special devices in AFS space?
> This is need for chroot'd environments. 

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:43:01PM -0600, Neulinger, Nathan R. wrote:
> 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.

Or you can do what I do: mount a local disk on a point in AFS space,
and have the devices on the local disk.  Of course, if you have
a dozen chrooted environments, this could be awkward.  But it works
for one.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk