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To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: DEVFS 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 23:14:32 -0700
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>> +
>> +	/* Try to mount devfs */
>> +	mount(MOUNT_DEVFS, "/dev", MNT_NOEXEC|MNT_RDONLY, 0);
>ok, that's a good start. You can even do it later than that.. in 
>/etc/fstab is almost good enough..
>I was actually wondering if it could be done at the same time
>as / is mounted..

   I'd actually like to see this done in the kernel when "root" is initially
mounted read-only.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project