[Scratchbox-users] mknod

[Claudio Scordino]

Timo Savola wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 15:39 +0100, Michael Trimarchi wrote:
> 
>> I have installed sudo inside scratchbox and I chage the permissione 
>> outside but I can't use it to create a device using the mknod. Is there 
>> an alternativies?
> 
> Fakeroot.
> 
> Scratchbox's mknod is magical: it creates the device node
> "/targets/TARGET/dev/NODE" when you invoke "mknod /dev/NODE ...", but it
> only succeeds with fakeroot.  The idea is to create device nodes and
> package them up ("mkfs.jffs2 --root /targets/TARGET ...") while in the
> same fakeroot session (or by saving+loading the fakeroot database).
> 
> timo

What Michael forgot to say, is that he already tried to use

fakeroot mknod

but it didn't work (mknod creates a normal file instead of a device).

Therefore, he tried using sudo...

Any idea of how creating a device /dev/ttyS0 inside Scratchbox ?

Thanks,

           Claudio


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