From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 1 23:31:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C507537B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 23:31:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 083C843E6E for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 23:31:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g926VP0U060895; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 08:31:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Bruce Evans , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP! GEOM as default in 5 days... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Oct 2002 08:27:20 +0200." <20021002062720.GX44476@starjuice.net> Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 08:31:25 +0200 Message-ID: <60894.1033540285@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp 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 In message <20021002062720.GX44476@starjuice.net>, Sheldon Hearn writes: >On (2002/10/02 16:27), Bruce Evans wrote: > >> It is a devfs issue that devfs moves things into the kernel where they >> harder to control and more fatal if they are got wrong. > >If it's just ownerships and permissions you're worried about, I think >the issue could be made moot by some /etc support for devfs(1). > >In fact, as the loudest supporter of MAKEDEV, you might be the best >person to drive its transcription into /etc/defaults/devfs.conf. :-) And with devfs(8), you can enact your personal policy just the way you like :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message