From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jul 14 3:36:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E62737C5CA; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 03:36:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.calldei.com) Received: from holly.calldei.com ([208.191.149.190]) by mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0FXO00MB7O5KH4@mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net>; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 05:36:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.calldei.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id FAA35623; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 05:35:41 -0500 (CDT envelope-from chris) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 05:35:41 -0500 From: Chris Costello Subject: Re: SysctlFS In-reply-to: To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Adrian Chadd , Matthew Dillon , Andrzej Bialecki , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chris@calldei.com Message-id: <20000714053540.A30847@holly.calldei.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.4i References: <20000712144510.A11316@ywing.creative.net.au> <200007130537.WAA29614@apollo.backplane.com> <20000714112117.D17372@ywing.creative.net.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- |Chris Costello |MOP AND GLOW - Floor wax used by Three Mile Island cleanup team. `---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message