From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from zombie.ncsc.mil (zombie.ncsc.mil [144.51.88.131]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i6TK4JrT022094 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:04:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp806.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (jazzdrum.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.7]) by zombie.ncsc.mil (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i6TK4HCb020048 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:04:18 GMT Received: from unknown (HELO hyd) (selinux@tycho.nsa.gov@81.152.10.162 with poptime) by smtp806.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Jul 2004 20:04:18 -0000 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:15:19 +0100 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton To: Ian Campbell Cc: Joshua Brindle , SE-Linux Subject: Re: udev and .dev... Message-ID: <20040729201519.GH9950@lkcl.net> References: <20040729091423.GC6443@lkcl.net> <4108EE75.6040109@gentoo.org> <1091110451.7878.87.camel@icampbell-debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1091110451.7878.87.camel@icampbell-debian> Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 03:14:11PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 13:32, Joshua Brindle wrote: > > Why not have a minimal /dev for init and friends and mount the ramfs for > > udev on top of it? it's much easier to deal with 1 /dev and this is > > pretty standard anyway. > > I believe what happens is that the on disk dev does live at /dev and the > udev initscript bind mounts it to /.dev before mounting the rams over > the top so that you can still get at the on disk version. presumably in order to sort it out (for admin purposes) and in this case, thank goodness for that, because otherwise it would be necessary to terminate udev in order to set the selinux permissions on the "real" /dev. l. -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.