Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 14:45:55 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ccd ccd.c src/sys/dev/vn vn.c src/sys/sys conf.h src/sys/i386/isa fd.c mcd.c scd.c wcd.c wd.c wt.c s Message-ID: <199607252045.OAA07544@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199607251727.TAA22036@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3577.838236253@time.cdrom.com> <199607251727.TAA22036@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> > it can throw your /dev files away every 5 minutes just for fun if it > > likes - they don't have to use it. > > What sense does it make using /dev entries to unconfigured drivers > (that's about all persistance would give you, isn't it :)? Permissions is the thing I'm most worried about. On my box, /dev/apm is open to the world, and I don't want to have to go edit a file *every* time I want to change the default permissions of a device. On my sun box, I have to write a script to change the default permissions on certain devices where the default permisissions aren't appropriate for my local use. Requiring every user to be a 'sh/perl/C/TCL/' programmer is not acceptable. If the 'persistance' happeens to be in a easy-to-use program like mset which edits the internal tables, it's fine by me. Just as long as I don't have to do it all by hand to change the default permissions. Nate
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