Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 22:55:41 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: jeff@walters.name Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comment on devfs.conf Message-ID: <3218.1053032141@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 May 2003 16:53:43 EDT." <200305151653.43540.jeff@walters.name>
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In message <200305151653.43540.jeff@walters.name>, Jeff Walters writes: >The new /etc/devfs.conf arrangement is a good thing but it doesn't work for >devices that are created on the fly after boot, and it gives an error on >wildcards on device names. > >I suggest for /etc/rc.d/devfs that instead of changing the permissions and >ownerships directly on device nodes, create a default devfs ruleset based on >/etc/devfs.conf entries and apply the set. For example, previously you could >modify /etc/rc.devfs with the logic like: I must admit that I should have looked at this, now that I have, I fully agree: The policy setup at boot should be not just applied once, but made the default ruleset. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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