From owner-cvs-all Mon May 14 6:47:34 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E1A437B440; Mon, 14 May 2001 06:47:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4EDlBp20631; Mon, 14 May 2001 15:47:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Robert Watson Cc: Greg Lehey , Eric Melville , Kris Kennaway , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Destroying and remaking device nodes (was: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files options src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC NEWCARD NOTES src/sys/ia64/conf GENERIC src/sys/pc98/conf GENERIC src/sys/fs/devfs devfs_devs.c devfs_vfsops.c devfs_vnops.c) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 May 2001 09:43:33 EDT." Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 15:47:11 +0200 Message-ID: <20629.989848031@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Robe rt Watson writes: >Personally, I'd like to see rm unmodified: part of the goal here is to >allow /dev to act like a normal file system from the perspective of >management tools (including things like graphical file managers). >Modifying base system tools is going to hurt later. We should really just >allow rm and rm -W to work as normal. They use documented APIs as they >exist already. I have had a number of people ask for "mknod" instead of "rm -W" and after thinking about it I guess that is the most POLA compliant solution. I'll work that one tonight if I can. The mountflags issue persist in preventing the more powerfull specification of policy... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message