Re: question on /dev/tap0

2001-03-26 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Intended behaviour. This is because of the access checks done in the > netlink code. Misleading, yes. I fixed the netlink code so it allowed this to work at one point. Search l-k archives for it. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: question on /dev/tap0

2001-03-25 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
Intended behaviour. This is because of the access checks done in the netlink code. Misleading, yes. On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, James Stevenson wrote: > > Hi > > would somebody be able to explain to me > when you try to open /dev/tap0 which is a > character device file which has the permissions > > F

question on /dev/tap0

2001-03-25 Thread James Stevenson
Hi would somebody be able to explain to me when you try to open /dev/tap0 which is a character device file which has the permissions File: "tap0" Size: 0Filetype: Character Device Mode: (0666/crw-rw-rw-) when tried to open [mistral@linux /dev]$ cat tap0 cat: tap0: Operation not pe