From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 30 11:17:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11025 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 30 May 1998 11:17:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11018 for ; Sat, 30 May 1998 11:17:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA14649; Sat, 30 May 1998 14:17:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 14:17:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199805301817.OAA14649@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: dg@root.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Creating/deleting devfs nodes (was: I see one major problem with DEVFS...) In-Reply-To: <199805300750.AAA29816@implode.root.com> References: <19980530153046.E20360@freebie.lemis.com> <199805300750.AAA29816@implode.root.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > Yeah, people should use the file permissions to deny access to a device, > not rm. Having the node EXIST at all leaks information -- particularly in the DEVFS model where drivers that aren't present don't have device nodes. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message