From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 20 1: 5: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC86158A3 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 01:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA94845; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 02:03:30 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id CAA16206; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 02:02:44 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199909200802.CAA16206@harmony.village.org> To: Matthew Dillon Subject: Re: what is devfs? Cc: Chuck Robey , Julian Elischer , Wayne Cuddy , FreeBSD Hackers List In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:13:34 PDT." <199909200513.WAA77228@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199909200513.WAA77228@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 02:02:44 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199909200513.WAA77228@apollo.backplane.com> Matthew Dillon writes: : Personally speaking I don't see how permission persistence could possibly : be implemented within DEVFS itself without a huge amount of work. I'm : not sure it would be appropriate to implement it there anyhow when it : is so easy to just make the necessary changes in rc.local. I wrote about 50% of a devd that would sit and watch a /devfs mounted tree, recording changes to it and would then replay those changes when it was started again. I ran into some interesting problems making it fast, but this work predates jdp's work on having a tree watching interface. rc.local is a religious war and a security nightmare waiting to happen :-). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message