From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 30 15:18:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14374 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 30 May 1998 15:18:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14110 for ; Sat, 30 May 1998 15:17:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA15079 for ; Sat, 30 May 1998 22:17:08 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id AAA06365; Sun, 31 May 1998 00:15:26 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980531001525.36883@follo.net> Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 00:15:25 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: "Stephane E. Potvin" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I see one major problem with DEVFS... References: <199805301537.XAA22245@spinner.netplex.com.au> <357073D6.64199B09@videotron.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <357073D6.64199B09@videotron.ca>; from Stephane E. Potvin on Sat, May 30, 1998 at 05:02:14PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message