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authorjbranso@dismail.de <jbranso@dismail.de>2024-10-17 02:01:25 -0400
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2024-11-12 00:42:49 +0100
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add translator/devnode page.
* hurd/translator.mdwn: add a link to devnode * hurd/translator/devnode.mdwn: new file Message-ID: <20241017060129.22626-1-jbranso@dismail.de>
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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2024 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!tag stable_URL]]
+
+`devnode` is the Hurd devnode translator. It exposes a Mach device as
+a filesystem node (hence "devnode"), so you can do `open("/dev/foobar")`
+then `device_open("foobar")`. In particular this means that the
+Unix permission model can be used to manage access to the fs node,
+rather than you having to have the device master port (= be root).
+