Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 05:53:11 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, 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: <20000714055311.C30847@holly.calldei.com> In-Reply-To: <20000714124327.A64283@mithrandr.moria.org> 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> <20000714053540.A30847@holly.calldei.com> <20000714124327.A64283@mithrandr.moria.org>
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On Friday, July 14, 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > 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. Does kqueue return full information on files when they're updated or when files are added? Or do you need to read in the whole /dev directory each time a directory update event is received? > 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. The command used to "tell it to change permissions" is chmod. Devfs is supposed to work like a file system, not like a user level application. If I chmod 0600 /dev/null and reboot without issuing some odd 'syncdevfs' command, I want to be the only one who can write to the bitbucket when the system comes back up. > 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 ^^^^^^^ Is required to. > parser into the base system.) -- |Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> |Your fault, core dumped. `---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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