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Date:      Fri, 01 Jan 1999 18:54:49 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DEVFS, the time has come... 
Message-ID:  <199901020254.SAA06431@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Jan 1999 18:55:40 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901011829540.335-100000@picnic.mat.net> 

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> Anyhow, moving to the lack of defaults ... you claim that there is no
> method of restoring default values to a device, once that device has
> been modified in the persistence database. 

There's no existing method, but plenty of room to overload the 'chmod' 
syscall semantics to indicate that a node should restore itself to its 
defaults.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com


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