Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 01:44:33 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS permissions &c. Message-ID: <199701121444.BAA14336@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Although i should add that this is currently _not_ the case! I.e., >> nobody wrote that ``permissions & persistancy'' module for rc(8) yet. >> >> I've exchanged a couple of thoughts with Bruce about it. Maybe we >> could teach mtree(8) to help in this step. > >Yes, that would certainly be the way to do it. Not really. Things it doesn't do right include: - wildcards. The equivalent of `chmod 666 /dev/tty[pqrs][PQRS]*' is a huge list. - futures. When a new disk with lots of slices and partitions on it is detected, how is its mode and group changed so that a member of group operator can access it? >Seriously, I've used sysv for many years, and grew to quickly despise >the sysv approach. It does have some good sides, but, for example, >Sun's tree of symlinks to init/shutdown scripts is definitely an >overkill. I expect a tree of devices would be overkill too. You would need evil symlinks to reduce /dev/disks/raw/scsi/bus0/id0/lun0/slice2/partitionh to something like /dev/rsd0h :-). Bruce
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