replicate sockets?

[Eric "Shubes"]

Darrin Chandler wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks, Darrin. That makes sense.

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-Eric 'shubes'