Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 15:47:11 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Destroying and remaking device nodes (was: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files options src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC NEWCARD NOTES src/sys/ia64/conf GENERIC src/sys/pc98/conf GENERIC src/sys/fs/devfs devfs_devs.c devfs_vfsops.c devfs_vnops.c) Message-ID: <20629.989848031@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 May 2001 09:43:33 EDT." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010514094148.70573D-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010514094148.70573D-100000@fledge.watson.org>, Robe rt Watson writes: >Personally, I'd like to see rm unmodified: part of the goal here is to >allow /dev to act like a normal file system from the perspective of >management tools (including things like graphical file managers). >Modifying base system tools is going to hurt later. We should really just >allow rm and rm -W to work as normal. They use documented APIs as they >exist already. I have had a number of people ask for "mknod" instead of "rm -W" and after thinking about it I guess that is the most POLA compliant solution. I'll work that one tonight if I can. The mountflags issue persist in preventing the more powerfull specification of policy... -- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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