Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 22:28:48 +0100 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... Message-ID: <19990103222848.53389@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199901030252.KAA06791@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 10:52:05AM %2B0800 References: <19990102124331.02468@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199901030252.KAA06791@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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As Peter Wemm wrote: > Just repeating something I said earlier. I think it would be better to > enable drivers to choose a "class" much moreso than permissions. ... > > If we can do a: > sysctl -w vfs.devfs.class.console.uid=`id -u peter` > and have all past and future console related devices being owned by uid > 433 instead of 0, then I'd be as happy as a clam. I can live with a vehicle like sysctl spamm^H^H^H^H^Hproviding the kernel with UIDs. My only problem is that the current DEVFS implementation spams the kernel with a bunch of UIDs/GIDs the kernel shouldn't maintain itself. -- 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. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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