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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Subject: Re: setting device permissions for DEVFS 
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From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <11056.970344237@critter> Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
: We need a generic "devd" which finds out that devices have appeared,
: set their perms (if needed/wanted) and executes any commands needed
: (getty, mount, etc etc) by the device.

ifconfig and dhclient are likely the most often executed ones now.

I agree we need a generic devd.  Does devfs use the kqueue interface?

Warner


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