creating devices under a regular file system

[Eduardo Morras]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 23:29:50 +0000 (UTC)
Will Parsons <varro at nodomain.invalid> wrote:

> I would like to know how to create a few selected devices
> (viz. dev/null and dev/urandom) under a regular directory tree using
> devfs.
> 
> The background for this is the following:
> 
> I use the fossil SCM system for various projects of mine, and keep the
> repositories under ~/FOSSIL.  Fossil provides a web interface, which I
> employ using inetd, using the following line in /etc/inetd.conf:
> 
> http stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/fossil fossil
> http /home/<uname>/FOSSIL
> 
> This works, but I get a warning message "can't open /dev/null and
> /dev/urandom", because fossil does a chroot into ~/FOSSIL, where of
> course the referenced devices do not exist.  I asked about this on the
> fossil mailing list and got the reply that the preferred method of
> avoiding the warning message was to create these devices in the
> chrooted environment.
> 
> I presume that this can be done somehow via devfs, but am failing to
> discern how.
> 

I use fossil since its inception and never seen that warning. Is your user on wheel group?


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