replicate sockets?

[Darrin Chandler]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 07:08:38PM -0700, Eric Shubes wrote:
> I'm trying to set up and "sandbox" (I don't know if that's the right 
> term or no) for building and installing packages w/out actually 
> installing them on the system, in a chroot environment.
> 
> I don't imagine that I'll need any socket files, but I'm curious. I have 
>  two socket type files that I stumbled upon:
> srwxrwxrwx  1 mysql mysql 0 Jun 14 07:27 /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
> srwxrwxrwx  1 root root 0 Jun 14 07:27 /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
> 
> Is there some way to create or copy them using shell commands? From what 
> I can tell from a brief google, they're created by a C program.
> 
> Would someone please clue me in?

If you managed to create them, they would be completely useless without
the program which normally creates them. These "sockets" or "named
pipes" are a form of interprocess communication. Without the process,
they would have no purpose.

However, if installation outside chroot creates such a thing then
installation inside chroot should as well, relative to the chroot.

For instance, it's possible (and often desirable) to run mysqld in a
chroot jail. You can then use clients to access it from outside the jail
by prepending the chroot to the normal path.

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