From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 17 12:40:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA16879 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:40:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA16832 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:40:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA05226; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:33:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "current1.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd005219; Tue Feb 17 12:33:31 1998 Message-ID: <34E9F331.773C2448@whistle.com> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:29:38 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org CC: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs persistence References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Simon Shapiro wrote: > > > > you cannot mknod. only the drivers can make nodes. > > (though there are ways to solve some problems you might normally > > try use mknod for) > > Ah, too bad. This means I cannot make stupid mistakes anymore? in theory.. in practice you can still rm /dev/rsd0s1a :) > > >> Oh, a /dev DEVFS mounted, can it create links and/or symlinks? > >> Why not? > > > > The user can use ln (with or without -s) > > Can the user do mkdir in /dev? yes The operations a user can do are: ln ln -s rmdir mv rm chown chmod chgrp (?touch?) > > So, if I create a file /etc/devfs.conf with something like : > > # Sample /etc/devfs.conf > [stuff removed] yes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message