Re: devlinks: an alternative to devfs

Kevin Lentin (kevinl@cs.monash.edu.au)
Fri, 9 Jan 1998 00:04:53 +1100

On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 05:56:51PM +1100, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> But, as I've already said, tar doesn't store whatever magic is needed
> to tell the FS driver that this symlink is really a devlink.

It's worse than that. Current filesystems don't let you fiddle with the
permission bits on a symlink. I had hoped we could just set a permission
bit on the symlink and then everything else would be handled invisibly. But
my experiments earlier seem to show that playing with symlink permissions
just doesn't work currently. I thought you could do it in C.

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