From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Nov 28 9:41: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32B1F37B41F; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:41:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.feral.com (mjacob@mailhost.feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fASHf0W36655; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:41:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:41:00 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@beppo Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Robert Watson Cc: Peter Wemm , Dima Dorfman , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody working on devd? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Generally speaking, it seems desirable the devices would appear in /dev > with conservative permissions, and then userland policy might adjust those > permissions to be more liberal based on files in /etc, and so on. I think that if this is the case, there's no point in device drivers knowing about permissions at all, and shouldn't be even *allowed* to set them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message