Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 21:12:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu>, current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: usermount with devfs Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021003211136.64999D-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20021003185225.GA45875@trit.org>
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On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Dima Dorfman wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> 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
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