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From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
Subject: RE: DEVFS questions.
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Alfred Perlstein, On 11-Sep-98 you wrote:
>  
>  is there a way to perhaps mount_union over devfs to keep symlinks and
>  such?
>  
>  also, is there a way to preserve permission changes between reboots?
>  maybe
>  a script that would do it based on a file...

Put in /etc/rc:

if [ -f /etc/dev_modes ]
  then
    while read line
      do
        node=`echo ${line} | cut -d ' ' -f xxxx`
        mode=`echo ${line} | cut -d ' ' -f yyyy`
        type=`echo ${line ....

        if [ ! -e /dev/${node} ]
          then
            mknod ${type} ${major} ${minor} /dev/${node}
            chmod ${mode} /dev/${node}
>  
>  libdisk is still broken with DEVFS/SLICE, barfs on: 
>  ioctl: : Inappropriate ioctl for device
>  failed on IOCTL disk = /dev/rwd0 errno = 25      
>  
>  (i added some debugging stuff to the code)
>  
>  disklabel is also b0rked, will not write out to the disk.
>  
>  (not being sarcastic) i know DEVFS is quite new, but is it expected to
>  be
>  used? or is it something akin to kernfs?
>  
>  thanks,
>  Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com
>  -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD.
>  -- http://www.freebsd.org/                        3.0-current
>  
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Sincerely Yours,                 Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG
                                             770.265.7340
Simon Shapiro

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