Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 10:48:43 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, obrien@NUXI.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/chown Makefile Message-ID: <199912141848.KAA22993@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199912140617.WAA18057@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <199912141402.JAA35445@whizzo.transsys.com>
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:So, do we need to wait until the perfect solution until any progress
:can be made at all? The place that I suspect most folks trip across
:the chown problem is when making new device nodes for disk devices.
:You don't need awk for that particular problem, and given all the flux
:in the disk arena these days, it would be nice if unsuspecting users
:can unscrew themselves by making (e.g., ad0s1a) device nodes when they
:stumble across that change.
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:louie
I would solve this problem by adding options to 'mknod' to allow the
user & group to be specified, and leaving chown where it was before.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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