Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 02:02:44 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Wayne Cuddy <wayne@crb-web.com>, FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: what is devfs? Message-ID: <199909200802.CAA16206@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:13:34 PDT." <199909200513.WAA77228@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199909200513.WAA77228@apollo.backplane.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909191854230.4696-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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In message <199909200513.WAA77228@apollo.backplane.com> Matthew Dillon writes: : Personally speaking I don't see how permission persistence could possibly : be implemented within DEVFS itself without a huge amount of work. I'm : not sure it would be appropriate to implement it there anyhow when it : is so easy to just make the necessary changes in rc.local. I wrote about 50% of a devd that would sit and watch a /devfs mounted tree, recording changes to it and would then replay those changes when it was started again. I ran into some interesting problems making it fast, but this work predates jdp's work on having a tree watching interface. rc.local is a religious war and a security nightmare waiting to happen :-). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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