/dev/null in bind chroot()

[Andrzej Krzysztofowicz]

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> 
> 
> 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).

Is the descriptor kept over a reload of named?
AFAIR there were problems with that.

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

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