From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 27 04:45:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA03331 for current-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 04:45:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA03299 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 04:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id NAA21605 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 13:45:15 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA27428 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 13:45:14 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id LAA29208 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 11:38:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607270938.LAA29208@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 11:38:55 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199607252015.NAA28229@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at "Jul 25, 96 01:15:32 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)