From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 19 0:26:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0310237B401 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:26:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-146.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34AEE43E6E for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:26:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 625ED66B2C; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:26:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 004541288; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:27:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:27:58 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: kip@eventdriven.org Cc: Bruce Evans , Kris Kennaway , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device permissions with DEVFS Message-ID: <20021119082758.GA3738@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20021119181343.Y29882-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20021119081649.13088.qmail@web14008.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0F1p//8PRICkK4MW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021119081649.13088.qmail@web14008.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:16:49AM -0800, Kip Macy wrote: > Sorry, if I'm repeating something already said, but > the tone of your mail would indicate that I'm not. >=20 > This doesn't sound like an intrinsic limitation of > devfs, just an issue with how it is structured now. > There should just be a central file for all the=20 > devices which devfs sucks in at build (or maybe boot)=20 > time specifying the appropriate permissions and any > other configuration information. No, the default permissions are specified in the driver source code via make_dev(). Kris --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE92fYOWry0BWjoQKURApNZAKCau/hu4poq5qyZFZWhO6xTaXm0ywCcCHcw HsSyI1VzSFzQUoUwQ2/Njpo= =6buo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message