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From: Marco Molteni <mmolteni@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: kern/63954: devfs loses permissions
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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