From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 3 18:13:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3E9637B401 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:13:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2182143E42 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:13:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g941CeOo065344; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 21:12:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 21:12:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Dima Dorfman Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Lars Eggert , current Subject: Re: usermount with devfs In-Reply-To: <20021003185225.GA45875@trit.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Dima Dorfman wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <3D9C79A0.5040100@isi.edu>, Lars Eggert writes: > > > > >So there is no more usermount under -current with devfs? Or is there > > >another way to have the symlinks be created with the different > > >permissions (since devfs rules don't seem to apply to them)? > > > > Symlinks permissions are not used in FreeBSD, only the permissions > > of whatever they point at is used. > > Do we think that devfs rules *should* apply to symlinks? I couldn't > quite make it work when I tried before, but I didn't try very hard, so > it's probably doable if it's desirable. Is it desirable, though? As > phk points out, symlink permissions aren't used, so is there a reason > besides aesthetics that one would want to change them? Likewise for > ownership. symlink ownership is used for sticky bit directories to determine if it can be deleted. This probably doesn't apply in the devfs case, but is a real restriction in UFS. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message