From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 26 13:10:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA20635 for current-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 13:10:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA20625 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 13:10:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA20263; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 13:09:54 -0700 (PDT) To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), current@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@village.org 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 26 Jul 1996 21:37:22 +0200." <3119.838409842@critter.tfs.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 13:09:54 -0700 Message-ID: <20261.838411794@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > There are a couple of fine points still not resolved. > There is >still< no way to generally specify a policy: > "Make all disks foo.bar mode 0640" You wouldn't be losing anything though - we don't have this now! :-) You could still make the foo.bar devices underneath and chmod them 640, which is not as elegant, no, but still gives the "traditional" UNIX user a solution which makes sense. I wouldn't leave this as a sticking point since the proposal solves so many of the problems people have been complaining about so far, it should just be done. > Why would we even care about the type of node apart from "Directory" or > "Not Directory" ? Ie, we could mount devfs on a FS that doesn't support > c/b devs at all (msdos, hfs ...) I suppose that's true too! If you found a regular file named fd0a with perms 700 then you'd just borrow the perms and ignore the type? Jordan