From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 23:42:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA23819 for current-outgoing; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 23:42:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA23814 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 23:42:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.7.6/8.6.9) id QAA08305; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 16:37:40 +1000 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 16:37:40 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199610100637.QAA08305@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, sthaug@nethelp.no Subject: Re: 961006-SNAP comments Cc: danj@netcom.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, julian@whistle.com Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >2. Use DEVFS for the devices. > >Any reason why this wouldn't work? Yes, devfs is too broken to use. E.g., anyone can chmod and chown anything in it. Bruce