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From: Nigel Kukard <nkukard@lbsd.net>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] initramfs doesn't need root to create an image
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:32:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1206808341.19075.1.camel@nigel-x60> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wsnl7bk0.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk>


>  Nigel> Does fakeroot keep device-special information if you create
>  Nigel> devices inside its environment? ie. if you create a /dev/hda
>  Nigel> inside a fakeroot using mknod, tar it up, exit fakeroot, untar
>  Nigel> it with admin privs, is it still a device special file?
> 
> Yes, that's the point of fakeroot.

A day doesn't pass when I don't learn something new  ;)

*thinks of ways to use fakeroot*

-N
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      reply	other threads:[~2008-03-29 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-29  6:59 [Buildroot] initramfs doesn't need root to create an image Nigel Kukard
2008-03-29 14:00 ` Hamish Moffatt
2008-03-29 14:12   ` Nigel Kukard
2008-03-29 14:33     ` Peter Korsgaard
2008-03-29 14:56       ` Nigel Kukard
2008-03-29 15:04         ` Hamish Moffatt
2008-03-29 16:02           ` Nigel Kukard
2008-03-29 16:13         ` Peter Korsgaard
2008-03-29 16:32           ` Nigel Kukard [this message]

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