From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jul 14 3:43:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9EEE37C5A2; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 03:43:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13D2wJ-000Gjp-00; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:43:27 +0200 Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:43:27 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Chris Costello Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Adrian Chadd , Matthew Dillon , Andrzej Bialecki , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SysctlFS Message-ID: <20000714124327.A64283@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000712144510.A11316@ywing.creative.net.au> <200007130537.WAA29614@apollo.backplane.com> <20000714112117.D17372@ywing.creative.net.au> <20000714053540.A30847@holly.calldei.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000714053540.A30847@holly.calldei.com>; from chris@calldei.com on Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 05:35:41AM -0500 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri 2000-07-14 (05:35), Chris Costello wrote: > 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. kqueue can do this (watching for permission changes) easily. It can also get notified when a new file appears - either from the kernel, or from watching the directory. I'm not sure whether it should automatically change permissions in the database when someone changes permission in /dev. I'd rather it only change permissions when someone tells it to, through some sort of configuration file. In that case, it should probably be an easily-scriptable simple-to-manually-change text file. (The first person to say XML gets to try to motivate the importation of a BSD-licensed good XML parser into the base system.) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message