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Date:      Mon, 4 Jul 2005 10:58:27 +0200
From:      Marco Molteni <mmolteni@cisco.com>
To:        Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net>
Cc:        Matteo Riondato <matteo@freebsd.org>, edwin@mavetju.org, freebsd-rc@freebsd.org, bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern/63954: devfs loses permissions
Message-ID:  <200507041058.28248.mmolteni@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050701100546.GA1641@rogue.smit.lan>
References:  <20050615162744.GP1053@kaiser.sig11.org> <200506301513.55718. mmolteni@cisco.com> <20050701100546.GA1641@rogue.smit.lan>

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On Friday 01 July 2005 12:05, Mike Makonnen wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:13:54PM +0200, Marco Molteni wrote:
> > Mike,
> >
> > Matteo was referring to devfs.conf, not devfs.rules.
>
> ahh ok.
>
> > devfs.conf should die, it is there to confuse people.
>
> I had thought about removing it, but it still does one thing
> devfs.rules can't do, namely symlinking. For devfs.rules to do
> symlinking devfs(8) needs to support it. I've been meaning to take a
> look at that for a while but keep putting it off.

I'd be very grateful if you founded the time to look at it, it would be 
a much needed clean-up IMHO.

thanks again
marco



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