From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jul 16 9:28:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (beachbum.freebsd.dk [212.242.32.0]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4D7C37B9EE; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 09:28:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA03950; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 18:28:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Chuck Paterson Cc: Robert Watson , Warner Losh , Kelly Yancey , Julian Elischer , Dan Nelson , Adrian Chadd , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DEVFS, the complete picture (Was: Re: SysctlFS) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 16 Jul 2000 09:35:45 MDT." <200007161535.JAA11844@berserker.bsdi.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 18:28:05 +0200 Message-ID: <3948.963764885@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200007161535.JAA11844@berserker.bsdi.com>, Chuck Paterson writes: > > In the context of cloning as you describe it how would >system administrators control access permissions and the actual >names which get created? The devices would get the permissions given in the make_dev() call, ie the "implementing code selected defaults". Sysctls could be used to change this. A devd(8) is probably the correct way to change this. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | 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 freebsd-arch" in the body of the message