Re: PAM
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 11:26:37AM +1100, matthew green wrote:
>
> I thought sockets weren't affected by read-only filesystem. Just out
> of curiousity, why should they be if the node is already there? There'd
> be no actual writing to the filesystem. Do fifo's not work either?
>
> creating a socked or a named pipe is creating a file on the
> file system. you need to be able to write to it. this is
> simply enforcing the same semantics as elsewhere...
I understood that. I just didn't realize you had to delete and re-create them
each time. I guess you can't reuse the inode. I thought you could.
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