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From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: kern/75233: [fdc] breaking fdformat /dev/fd0 resets device
 permissions and perhaps causes unkillable process
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The following reply was made to PR kern/75233; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, christoph.mallon@gmx.de
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Subject: Re: kern/75233: [fdc] breaking fdformat /dev/fd0 resets device permissions
 and perhaps causes unkillable process
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:07:15 -0400

 You need to use devfs rules for this instead.  The /dev/fd0 device can
 come and go with media changes.  To make permissions on /dev/fd0
 persistent you need to teach devfs (via a rule) to use the desired
 permissions on each fd0 device.
 
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 John Baldwin