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Article #748Re: Does anyone have a tar or cpio that will use remote devices?
From: Guy Harris
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 1990 23:44
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 1990 23:44
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>>just a note -- sV RFS allows one to remote-mount the entire /dev directory... > >What happens if the kernels are different? Is there any protection >against, say, /dev/lp having world read/write and major/minor numbers >corresponding to /dev/mem? No, but there doesn't have to be. If you mount a "/dev" directory from another machine, all accesses to devices in that directory go over the wire and access the remote machine's devices, using the *remote* machine's interpretation of the major and minor numbers. So, even if "/dev/lp" on the remote machine had the same major/minor as "/dev/mem" on your machine, using "/mnt/dev/lp" or whatever would refer to the printer on the remote machine, not physical memory on your machine.
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