From 0ff4e4cf092ec6d26408171b1e4b97f2d99be8a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "jbranso@dismail.de" Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 02:01:25 -0400 Subject: 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> --- hurd/translator/devnode.mdwn | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 hurd/translator/devnode.mdwn (limited to 'hurd/translator') 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). + -- cgit v1.2.3