So? Do you allow downloading from/to /dev in your chrooted ftp?
Ofcourse this is not hard-wired or something. You tell devfsd
to put dev's somewhere. Next moment you edit backup config
and tell it to igrore that /somewhere. As I said: like /proc
currently is. Or should current /proc converted to CHR devices?
My idea is (well, 'devfs2' - I have the core almost working now)
that the 'devices' will be VFS only objects - they live
only in inode cache (on ramfs). So the CHR/BLK flags are only
backwards compatibility for supporting major:minors for /dev on
eg ext2. Currently I think exposing device inodes as ordinary
files (or dirs if needed), so they look like any file to
programs. Will this break too much? Another variant would be
to expose them as S_IFDEV - which probably breaks even more.
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