Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 11:38:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) 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 Message-ID: <199607270938.LAA29208@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199607252015.NAA28229@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at "Jul 25, 96 01:15:32 pm"
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As Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >What sense does it make using /dev entries to unconfigured drivers > >(that's about all persistance would give you, isn't it :)? > > Persistence would allow you to change the permissions on a device and > have them stick. If a device was not availible, it wouldn't show up > in /dev, but if it came back (say after replacing faulty hardware) > any permission changes you made in the past would show up as soon as > the device did. That sounds reasonable. The mere question is whether you want an `automatic' persistance, or rather prefer sort of a knob you can turn in order to say ``record permissions right now''. The latter is rather easy to accomplish by recording them in say /etc/rc.devices, and run this script before going multi-user. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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