Yo Hal! On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:27:56 -0700 Hal Murray <halmur...@sonic.net> wrote:
> Gary said:
> > Notice the "nodev"?
> > From "man chmod":
> > nodev
> > Do not interpret character or block special devices on
> > the filesystem.
>
> It works fine from my test program. What's different about ntpd?
Does your test program change user and group the way ntpd does?
> Is a UNIX socket (fifo?) a special device?
Seems "special" to me.
> When I see "device", I think of the stuff in /dev/
That too.
Easy way to check, just turn nodev off:
~ # mount -o remount,dev /tmp
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