Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:43:27 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.ORG>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SysctlFS Message-ID: <20000714124327.A64283@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <20000714053540.A30847@holly.calldei.com>; from chris@calldei.com on Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 05:35:41AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0007121328020.49102-100000@mx.webgiro.com> <20000712144510.A11316@ywing.creative.net.au> <200007130537.WAA29614@apollo.backplane.com> <20000714112117.D17372@ywing.creative.net.au> <xzppuohggib.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000714053540.A30847@holly.calldei.com>
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On Fri 2000-07-14 (05:35), Chris Costello wrote: > 1. A devfsd, which uses some sort of routing socket/syscall/whatever > and writes out permission changes to some file in /var/db. > I heard this one from someone else but I can't think of who. kqueue can do this (watching for permission changes) easily. It can also get notified when a new file appears - either from the kernel, or from watching the directory. I'm not sure whether it should automatically change permissions in the database when someone changes permission in /dev. I'd rather it only change permissions when someone tells it to, through some sort of configuration file. In that case, it should probably be an easily-scriptable simple-to-manually-change text file. (The first person to say XML gets to try to motivate the importation of a BSD-licensed good XML parser into the base system.) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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