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Date:      Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:52:26 +0000
From:      Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu>, current <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: usermount with devfs
Message-ID:  <20021003185225.GA45875@trit.org>
In-Reply-To: <7190.1033665253@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <3D9C79A0.5040100@isi.edu> <7190.1033665253@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> In message <3D9C79A0.5040100@isi.edu>, Lars Eggert writes:
> 
> >So there is no more usermount under -current with devfs? Or is there 
> >another way to have the symlinks be created with the different 
> >permissions (since devfs rules don't seem to apply to them)?
> 
> Symlinks permissions are not used in FreeBSD, only the permissions
> of whatever they point at is used.

Do we think that devfs rules *should* apply to symlinks?  I couldn't
quite make it work when I tried before, but I didn't try very hard, so
it's probably doable if it's desirable.  Is it desirable, though?  As
phk points out, symlink permissions aren't used, so is there a reason
besides aesthetics that one would want to change them?  Likewise for
ownership.

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