From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jan 3 14:11:27 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA13481 for freebsd-arch-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:11:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA13476 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:11:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA19809 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 23:11:00 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id XAA00589 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 23:10:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA11963 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 13:51:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id WAA14536 for freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 22:51:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA14704; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 22:28:49 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from j) Message-ID: <19990103222848.53389@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 22:28:48 +0100 From: J Wunsch To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <19990102124331.02468@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199901030252.KAA06791@spinner.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <199901030252.KAA06791@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 10:52:05AM +0800 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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