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Date:      Sun, 31 May 1998 00:15:25 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        "Stephane E. Potvin" <sepotvin@videotron.ca>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I see one major problem with DEVFS...
Message-ID:  <19980531001525.36883@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <357073D6.64199B09@videotron.ca>; from Stephane E. Potvin on Sat, May 30, 1998 at 05:02:14PM -0400
References:  <199805301537.XAA22245@spinner.netplex.com.au> <357073D6.64199B09@videotron.ca>

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On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 05:02:14PM -0400, Stephane E. Potvin wrote:
> Maybe this will seems a stupid question but why in the first place would
> someone want to delete a device from a devfs /dev? Or put differently why is
> not devfs append-only so someone would be able to make new links but not able
> to delete existing devices?

For use in a chroot()'ed environment.

Eivind.

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