Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 00:42:56 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), freebsd-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ccd ccd.c src/sys/dev/vn vn.c src/sys/sys conf.h src/sys/i386/isa fd.c mcd.c scd.c wcd.c wd.c wt.c s Message-ID: <1430.838366976@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Jul 1996 13:15:32 PDT." <199607252015.NAA28229@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> Persistence would allow you to change the permissions on a device and > have them stick. If a device was not availible, it wouldn't show up > in /dev, but if it came back (say after replacing faulty hardware) > any permission changes you made in the past would show up as soon as > the device did. It would also allow you to make links, like: ln -s /dev/cuaa0 /dev/mouse Which get recreated automagically when devfs is next mounted. Yes, you could accomplish the same effect with a handful of commands in /etc/rc.local, but the point is to make it transparent and so obey the principle of least astonishment. Jordan
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