Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 00:21:37 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Paul Traina <pst@juniper.net>, core@FreeBSD.ORG, junichi@jp.freebsd.org, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wfd block major number reassignment from 24 to 1 Message-ID: <3663.887412097@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:19:21 PST." <199802132319.PAA05082@dingo.cdrom.com>
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In message <199802132319.PAA05082@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: >> I belive that persistence in DEVFS is a BAD thing, but I'm appearantly >> pretty alone on -core with this view... > >Have you ever wanted to change permissions on an entry in /dev? yes. In which case I always add it to /etc/rc.local so I'm sure it will be there on the next reboot. I also generally make it a wildcard thing so I do it for all the disks/ttys or whatever I want to do it to. >If not, then your stance is understandable. But as soon as you accept >that there may be more than one "right" set of permissions for >something, you accept that persistence is required. Yes I have, and no I do not accept that. If I decide that disks should be "642 foo.mumble" on my machine, I should be able to express that such that when I add more disks it will DTRT. Permissions in /dev is a policy issue, and should be handled as such: ie, from a root-controlled config file. I belive persistence in devfs (as in /dev) is a very bad thing. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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