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In message <20050104094600.GA11823@walton.maths.tcd.ie>, David Malone writes:
>On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 07:30:02AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> >>   Log:
>> >>   Eliminate vop_revoke() function now that devfs_revoke() does the entire job.
>
>> >do these changes mean it is no longer possible to revoke ordinary files?
>
>> It never were.
>
>There was actually a short period when revoking regular files and
>ttys worked. However, revoking fifos and Unix domain sockets didn't,
>so it was restricted to tty for the sake of consistency. (Maybe
>where I say "ttys" I actually mean "devices"?)

You can revoke all devices, but it doesn't really work 100% except for
ttys.

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