Date: Wed, 19 Apr 95 13:10:57 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: dufault@hda.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: DEVFS ownership and permissions Message-ID: <9504191910.AA19689@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199504191846.LAA09577@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Apr 19, 95 11:46:08 am
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> Contrary to to Terry, I have talked with Julian about his ideas :-) > > I belive we will make it part of the boot procedure to have a shell > script set the permissions. > > Permissions are policy, and policy does not belong in the kernel. Without rserving part of the name space for uid/gid or permissions, you can't have a non-initialized default state for these values. I've already noted that an rc style mechanism would be necessary for permissions not equal to the default. A devfs is not magic; Julian, me, and god knows who else have discussed the idea to death at 3 or 4 seperate occasions in the past. It's not likely that we would have different opinions in anything but implementation details this late in the game, especially since it's a given that Julian has already implemented the thing -- several times -- I have an older copy on hand, actually. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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