Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 05:35:41 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.ORG>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SysctlFS Message-ID: <20000714053540.A30847@holly.calldei.com> In-Reply-To: <xzppuohggib.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0007121328020.49102-100000@mx.webgiro.com> <20000712144510.A11316@ywing.creative.net.au> <200007130537.WAA29614@apollo.backplane.com> <20000714112117.D17372@ywing.creative.net.au> <xzppuohggib.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Friday, July 14, 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> I'm only half joking. Everyone seems to agree that we want (and need)
> devfs, but nobody seems to want to actually write it (yes, I know
> about the ownership / permissions problem, but don't you think someone
> would have solved it by now if they really wanted to?)
I can think of two implementations.
1. A devfsd, which uses some sort of routing socket/syscall/whatever
and writes out permission changes to some file in /var/db.
I heard this one from someone else but I can't think of who.
2. A mount argument specifying a file to store the permission
info in. Same idea as #1, different approach.
mount -t devfs /var/db/devfs.db /dev
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