Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > You ignored my mknod comment. Yes, proxy is a type of IPC. It's closest counterpart in the kernel now is a named pipe. The kernel does not try to create named pipes automatically. Named pipes are created deliberately by users with the mkfifo command or system call. Same with proxy. The proxy device nodes are application specific and need to be created as needed by applications.
Allocation of minor numbers is an issue but that is an issue that is separate from the proxy module itself. > Also, no, setting the permissions like this is not ok for a real system, > what is going to be in charge of setting the permissions on these random > device nodes? Again, compare proxy to a named pipe. It is up the application writer to decide who gets read and write access to its proxy nodes. thanks Bob Smith -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
