Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 10:05:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: julian@whistle.com Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I see one major problem with DEVFS... Message-ID: <199805311005.DAA20689@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980530154859.10304C-100000@current1.whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at May 30, 98 03:53:10 pm
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> > Just to get peace over the land again, I think you should implement > > it so that one can mknod a device again, but discard the dev_t, > > and use whatever DEVFS knows (better). This is a security hole. If a device is removed from a chroot environment, it should be impossible to recreate it. The reasoning should be obvious. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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