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Date:      Sat, 15 Jul 2000 12:49:17 -0500
From:      Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
To:        Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
Cc:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, 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:  <20000715124917.D30847@holly.calldei.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000715130156.B12982@cicely8.cicely.de>
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On Saturday, July 15, 2000, Bernd Walter wrote:
> >    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.

> Do you really want this or is it OK to have default permissions
> in singleuser mode and having this restored while going multiuser?

   In single user mode, sure.  I imagine that the mount code
should try to find the file, and if not, just use the attributes
set in make_dev(9).

-- 
|Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
|Programming is an unnatural act.
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