From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 8 12:39:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-78.max1-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.8.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE7A014E0B for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 12:39:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA03140; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 01:07:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA00496; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 18:05:48 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199910071705.SAA00496@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: wsanchez@apple.com Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Joe Abley , Conrad Minshall , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Oct 1999 17:24:14 PDT." <199910070024.RAA26518@scv3.apple.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 18:05:48 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > | Please, don't give me this crap. "Removable media" is a very > | well-defined terminology. > > Only in screw-your-device-into-the-machine land. > > We're have to consider hot-swappable devices, including hard disks > and floppies and video cameras and new-uber-whatzit-media. The admin has to ``mount -u'' it local - it should default to foreign. > -Fred > > > -- > Wilfredo Sanchez, wsanchez@apple.com > Apple Computer, Inc., Core Operating Systems / BSD > Technical Lead, Darwin Project > 1 Infinite Loop, 302-4K, Cupertino, CA 95014 -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message