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Re: cruft : great program ! everyone should use it !



On Sun 26 Apr 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> > with MAKEDEV -I you can create device files in the local directory,
> > even within fakeroot.
> 
> No you can't. Making such files requires root permissions. Fakeroot emulates
> making them, but from outside fakeroot, they look like normal 0 byte files.

you are right. but the idea was to get a list of all devices and their
security informations, and for this fakeroot is sufficient.

andreas


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