/dev/null in bind chroot()

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz arekm at maven.pl
Fri Jun 1 20:51:56 CEST 2007


Hello

I wonder what for /dev/null can be used by named inside of it's chroot() ? Any 
ideas? I guess glibc itself doesn't really need it.

/dev/random for example is no longer needed since bind can use /dev/random 
from outside of chroot (it opens it early and keeps descriptor).

Now if /dev/null could be dropped, too then it would be great.

ps. bind 9.4.1-2 makes it way to ac-ready now, please test it
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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
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