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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit:  src/etc security
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>> The reason is that character devices change its mode/permissons/time
>> very often.

>Ok, it will become a moot point :) with the advent of devfs anyway.

Indeed :-).  devfs_settattr() is currently very broken (open permission
is enough for chown(), and time setting is disconnected from read and
write ...)m but it should work normally when devfs is finished, so the
mode/permissions/time will change very often.

Bruce