Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 10:59:50 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>, terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert), current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FS PATCHES: THE NEXT GENERATION Message-ID: <199602091859.KAA20315@block.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Feb 1996 05:11:49 -0800." <19888.823871509@time.cdrom.com>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> wrote:
> It has to work the way it works now, e.g. you should be able to just
> walk into /dev (and that could be one of many incarnations of `dev',
> remember) and futz with permissions or "delete" device entries you
> don't want to be present for security reasons, and that information
> should stay there across mounts.
FYI...I think Solaris 2.x does this with some sort of special flag at the
boot prompt. Maybe there could be a '-r' switch (I THINK that's what they
use) to force regeneration of the device file entries?
Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div)
1700 Westlake Ave N #500
scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109
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