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diff --git a/hurd/translator.mdwn b/hurd/translator.mdwn index 67014a3c..fe00a644 100644 --- a/hurd/translator.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator.mdwn @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ The [[concept|concepts]] of translators creates its own problems, too: * [[hello]] * [[auth]] +* [[devnode]] * [[exec]] * [[ifsock]] * [[password]] diff --git a/hurd/translator/devnode.mdwn b/hurd/translator/devnode.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..24c84a7e --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/translator/devnode.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[[!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). + |