Re: [uml-devel] Feature request

[Michael R. <mc...@sa...>]

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>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Dike <jd...@ka...> writes:
    Jeff> Something I have planned is a filemap switch.  You'd do something
    Jeff> like 
    Jeff> 'filemap=3,/dev/net/tun 3</dev/net/tun' on the command line.
    Jeff> Whenever 
    Jeff> UML wanted to open a file, it would check whether a descriptor to
    Jeff> that file 
    Jeff> had been passed on the command line, and use that descriptor if
    Jeff> so. 
 
  That will be cool.
  Could it be an INET socket as well? 

    Jeff> This would allow chroot jails to be pretty much empty, and also
    Jeff> make you 
    Jeff> specify on the command line every file that UML is allowed to
    Jeff> access. 

  perhaps it is time for a config file for UML?

  Even if it is initially just DOS-style @filename (i.e. take arguments
from that file instead of the command line).

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