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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:41:00 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Anybody working on devd? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111280940210.28332-100000@beppo>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011128113543.37721K-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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> Generally speaking, it seems desirable the devices would appear in /dev
> with conservative permissions, and then userland policy might adjust those
> permissions to be more liberal based on files in /etc, and so on. 

I think that if this is the case, there's no point in device drivers knowing
about permissions at all, and shouldn't be even *allowed* to set them.



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