Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:49:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Wayne Cuddy <wayne@crb-web.com>, FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: what is devfs? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909201147520.20959-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <199909200802.CAA16206@harmony.village.org>
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On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > I wrote about 50% of a devd that would sit and watch a /devfs mounted > tree, recording changes to it and would then replay those changes when > it was started again. I ran into some interesting problems making it > fast, but this work predates jdp's work on having a tree watching > interface. rc.local is a religious war and a security nightmare > waiting to happen :-). Well, with devd or devfsd its still going to read the persistant store when started by the system on reboot; I'd imagine you'd be able to make checkpoint intervals tunable and tell it which permission updates you wanted to ignore and use the defaults; tty devices come to mind. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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