From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 19 14:21: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08EE737B404 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:21:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B19143E77 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:21:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0351.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.96] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18EGjb-0007HO-00; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:20:44 -0800 Message-ID: <3DDAB8ED.79EF81DE@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:19:25 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcin Cieslak Cc: kip@eventdriven.org, Bruce Evans , Kris Kennaway , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device permissions with DEVFS References: <20021119081649.13088.qmail@web14008.mail.yahoo.com> <3DD9F777.2502F3F0@mindspring.com> <20021119115000.GA67895@barbera.system.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marcin Cieslak wrote: > > What's wrong with having /etc/minor_perm et consortes > a la Solaris? With sensible kernel defaults to allow > booting without your favourite root partition. What's wrong with just having /dev? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message