Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Mar 2001 02:27:39 +0200 (MEST) | From | Lennert Buytenhek <> | Subject | Re: question on /dev/tap0 |
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Intended behaviour. This is because of the access checks done in the netlink code. Misleading, yes.
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, James Stevenson wrote:
> > Hi > > would somebody be able to explain to me > when you try to open /dev/tap0 which is a > character device file which has the permissions > > File: "tap0" > Size: 0 Filetype: Character Device > Mode: (0666/crw-rw-rw-) > > when tried to open > > [mistral@linux /dev]$ cat tap0 > cat: tap0: Operation not permitted > > and strace shows that it gets a permission error > open("tap0", O_RDONLY|0x8000) = -1 EPERM > > is it just me or is this either > a) a bug > b) very misleading > > thanks > James > >
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