From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 21 4: 5: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1ED37B404 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 04:05:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0012.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.12] helo=mindspring.com) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 16zF9J-0004b8-00; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 04:04:54 -0700 Message-ID: <3CC29CB1.35EADAF3@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 04:04:17 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Evans Cc: Craig Boston , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a 'bpf' group for /dev/bpf* References: <20020421201257.L579-100000@gamplex.bde.org> 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 Bruce Evans wrote: > On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Craig Boston wrote: > > Since -current by default uses devfs, is there a standard way to make the > > ownership/permissions of device nodes "sticky" so that they persist across > > boots? > > No. > > Or should we just put the appropriate commands in rc.local ? > > The problem has been moved to putting them in devfs. I'm pretty sure you can change it in the source code for the device node itself. Unfortunately, it's not handled with a marker-and-data approach, which would let you modify it in the object files, even for node instances that would not normally be created at boot time (using an ELF librarian and a linker set). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message