From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 21 8: 3:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from penelope.skunk.org (penelope.skunk.org [208.133.204.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CF4315B50 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 08:03:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@penelope.skunk.org) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by penelope.skunk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA83746 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:07:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:07:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Rosengart To: FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: what is devfs? In-Reply-To: <19990921122116.D696B1CA7@overcee.netplex.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > I think devfs is really cool. I don't think it needs to have > > fancy persistence in order to be useful. > > Likewise. I find myself never needing to change device permissions. I often change perms on the bpf device so that members of the wheel group can read it. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message