Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 14:17:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: dg@root.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Creating/deleting devfs nodes (was: I see one major problem with DEVFS...) Message-ID: <199805301817.OAA14649@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199805300750.AAA29816@implode.root.com> References: <19980530153046.E20360@freebie.lemis.com> <199805300750.AAA29816@implode.root.com>
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<<On Sat, 30 May 1998 00:50:29 -0700, David Greenman <dg@root.com> said: > Yeah, people should use the file permissions to deny access to a device, > not rm. Having the node EXIST at all leaks information -- particularly in the DEVFS model where drivers that aren't present don't have device nodes. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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