Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 08:34:34 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, jehamby@lightside.com, jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.x release question Message-ID: <1789.845534074@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Oct 1996 18:25:54 PDT." <1295.845515554@time.cdrom.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 -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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