From owner-cvs-all Fri Feb 13 15:30:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02882 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:30:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00733; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:21:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA05082; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:19:22 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802132319.PAA05082@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Julian Elischer , Paul Traina , Mike Smith , core@FreeBSD.ORG, junichi@jp.freebsd.org, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wfd block major number reassignment from 24 to 1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Feb 1998 00:07:47 +0100." <3524.887411267@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:19:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I belive that persistence in DEVFS is a BAD thing, but I'm appearantly > pretty alone on -core with this view... Have you ever wanted to change permissions on an entry in /dev? If not, then your stance is understandable. But as soon as you accept that there may be more than one "right" set of permissions for something, you accept that persistence is required. As the bishop said to the socialite, "now we're just negotiating a price". -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message