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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: Anybody working on devd? 
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From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
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> 
> If anyone has a better suggestion how to express the policy than
> by sticking rules like I proposed into the kernel from a userland
> program, I'm all ears...

Like I proposed well over a year ago? 8)

No, rules are the way to go, with a simple default hardcoded into the
kernel and an arbitrary interface for loading them (whether via a
daemon or whatever).

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