Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:00:35 GMT From: Marco Molteni <mmolteni@cisco.com> To: freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/63954: devfs loses permissions Message-ID: <200507040900.j6490Zt0019581@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/63954; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marco Molteni <mmolteni@cisco.com>
To: Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net>
Cc: Matteo Riondato <matteo@freebsd.org>, bug-followup@freebsd.org,
edwin@mavetju.org, freebsd-rc@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/63954: devfs loses permissions
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 10:58:27 +0200
On Friday 01 July 2005 12:05, Mike Makonnen wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:13:54PM +0200, Marco Molteni wrote:
> > Mike,
> >
> > Matteo was referring to devfs.conf, not devfs.rules.
>
> ahh ok.
>
> > devfs.conf should die, it is there to confuse people.
>
> I had thought about removing it, but it still does one thing
> devfs.rules can't do, namely symlinking. For devfs.rules to do
> symlinking devfs(8) needs to support it. I've been meaning to take a
> look at that for a while but keep putting it off.
I'd be very grateful if you founded the time to look at it, it would be
a much needed clean-up IMHO.
thanks again
marco
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