* hurd/translator.mdwn: add a link to devnode
* hurd/translator/devnode.mdwn: new file
---
hurd/translator.mdwn | 1 +
hurd/translator/devnode.mdwn | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 hurd/translator/devnode.mdwn
diff --git a/hurd/translator.mdwn b/hurd/translator.mdwn
index 67014a3c..fe00a644 100644
--- a/hurd/translator.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/translator.mdwn
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ The [[concept|concepts]] of translators creates its own
problems, too:
* [[hello]]
* [[auth]]
+* [[devnode]]
* [[exec]]
* [[ifsock]]
* [[password]]
diff --git a/hurd/translator/devnode.mdwn b/hurd/translator/devnode.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..74b708b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hurd/translator/devnode.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2024 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!tag stable_URL]]
+
+`devnode` is the Hurd devnode translator. It exposes a Mach device as
+a filesystem node (hence "devnode"), so you can do open("/dev/foobar")
+instead of device_open("foobar"). In particular this means that the
+Unix permission model can be used to manage access to the fs node,
+rather than you having to have the device master port (= be root).
+
--
2.45.2
