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From: Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com>
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Subject: Re: devfs support of wildcarding
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On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 13:40:59 -0800
Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> wrote:

> My recent post with a change to /etc/rc.d/devfs allowed for things
> like:
> 
> perm	pass*	0666
> 
> to be in /etc/devfs.conf
> 
> I've made a slight modification to that to allow something like:
> 
> perm	xpt0,pass*,cd*	0666
> 
> I hope someone else might find this useful.
> 

I would recommend using devfs.rules for that. It does support wildcards
just fine.

-- 
Alexander Kabaev