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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.x release question 
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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 08:34:34 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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In message <1295.845515554@time.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
>> > I feel they had a perfectly valid point.
>> 
>> Let them use union mounts...
>
>I see.  The "let them eat cake" argument, eh?  Well, Marie, we
>don't have unionfs and the peasants don't have cake. :-)

No no no!

He's right.

Devfs should stack on top of a regular directory, and pick up 
perms,owners and groups from there.

They way it works is this:

jkh$	cp /dev/null foo
DEVFS:  "null" do we have that ? yes, Lets ask below then:
UFS: "null" ? yes, uid=0,gid=2,mode=0666,bla bla bla
DEVFS: OK, "null", uid=0,gid=2,mode=0666

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