From owner-cvs-all Tue Dec 14 17:51: 7 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D082B14E7C; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:50:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA20783; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:49:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199912150149.RAA20783@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/chown Makefile In-Reply-To: from Andrzej Bialecki at "Dec 15, 1999 01:47:41 am" To: abial@webgiro.com (Andrzej Bialecki) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:49:51 -0800 (PST) Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon), louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos), obrien@NUXI.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > : > > > :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. > > > > 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. > > Why do you all insist on tweaking the whole OS to play by MAKEDEV rules, > instead of trying to invent a way to reduce its dependancy on external > tools? IMVHO all of the needed functions are already part of libc, so it > makes sense to do it in C instead of /bin/sh. This sounds like a promissing idea, read and parse a text file that describes device nodes. Kinda act like mtree(8) only for device nodes. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message