On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 6:56 PM, Keno Fischer <k...@juliacomputing.com> wrote: >>> My concern was that allowing this would cause unexpected >>> behavior, since the device numbers will differ between OS X >>> and Linux. Though maybe this isn't the place to worry about >>> that. >> >> The numbers may differ indeed but we don't really care since the >> server never opens device files. This is just a directory entry. > > Ok, let me try to implement it. However, I don't think it is possible > to implement mknodat (or at least I can't think of how) on Darwin > directly. I could use regular mknod, but presumably, this is used > to avoid a race condition between creating the device and setting > the permissions. Can you think of a good way to resolve that?
Would it work to fchdir in to the directory and use a cwd-relative mknod, then fchdir back? Or do we need to maintain the cwd while in this code?
