Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 06:47:08 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>, terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert), current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FS PATCHES: THE NEXT GENERATION Message-ID: <20406.823877228@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Feb 1996 15:18:42 %2B0100." <319.823875522@critter.tfs.com>
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> I want to be able to define a policy for permissions in /dev, and no > form is more unix-like and suitable than > > chmod 644 tty* > chown root.dev disk/* Actually, when we stood around discussing this, we agreed that the "journaling" mechanism would have to deal with the addition of wildcard rules like this. I understand the need to define permissions for entire classes of devices, not just single ones. It's also not a question of smart or not smart, it's a question of upholding the Principle of Least Astonishment and also not opening the can of worms any farther than it has to be opened. By preserving the old semantics, all your various shell scripts and system admin hacks survive and you don't have the "multiple incarnation of /dev (say for chroots) initialization problem" to worry about, either. Jordan
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