Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:44:00 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: core@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wfd block major number reassignment from 24 to 1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980213154137.23295H-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <3663.887412097@critter.freebsd.dk>
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having spent a long time thinking about this I must say that phk reflects my position on this exactly.. BTW who added 'core' to the CC? that's probably redundant. On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <199802132319.PAA05082@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: > >> 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? > > yes. > > In which case I always add it to /etc/rc.local so I'm sure it will > be there on the next reboot. > > I also generally make it a wildcard thing so I do it for all the > disks/ttys or whatever I want to do it to. > > >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. > > Yes I have, and no I do not accept that. > > If I decide that disks should be "642 foo.mumble" on my machine, > I should be able to express that such that when I add more disks > it will DTRT. > > Permissions in /dev is a policy issue, and should be handled as > such: ie, from a root-controlled config file. > > I belive persistence in devfs (as in /dev) is a very bad thing. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!" > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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