Re: Copy a door?

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 07/30/04

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    In article <MPG.1b7349d340a9c28b989928@news.alt.net>,
     dust <powdery@dusty.stuff> wrote:

    > In article <ceahd5$jtp$1@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, js@cs.tu-berlin.de
    > says...
    > > In article <MPG.1b72048e99043ef5989925@news.alt.net>,
    > > dust <powdery@dusty.stuff> wrote:
    > > >How does one make a copy of a door file? (Solaris 8)
    > >
    > > It makes no sense.
    > >
    > > A door file is a file from DOORFS mounted on top of a usually
    > > empty file.
    > >
    > > If you like to make a backup from a FS, you usually first create
    > > a snapshot and mount it. This mounted snapshot does not include
    > > the DOOR.
    > >
    > > If you use
    > > star -copy ....
    > >
    > > the DOOR file will be "archived" as DOOR but extracted as plain file.
    >
    > Alright, then, allow me to be more specific...
    >
    > There may not be a way to copy a door file (or door represented by the
    > empty "door" file) in the general sense, but is there a way to either
    > copy or recreate /etc/.name_service_door?
    >
    > That's really what I was after. You see, I've "jailed" a user in a
    > chroot environment, and that user needs to execute some commands that
    > access /etc/.name_service_door. (Which means I need to somehow put a
    > duplicate of that in the chroot environment.)

    If the chroot environment is on the same filesystem as /etc, you should
    be able to use a hard link. 

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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