Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 18:28:05 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Chuck Paterson <cp@bsdi.com> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DEVFS, the complete picture (Was: Re: SysctlFS) Message-ID: <3948.963764885@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Jul 2000 09:35:45 MDT." <200007161535.JAA11844@berserker.bsdi.com>
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In message <200007161535.JAA11844@berserker.bsdi.com>, Chuck Paterson writes: > > In the context of cloning as you describe it how would >system administrators control access permissions and the actual >names which get created? The devices would get the permissions given in the make_dev() call, ie the "implementing code selected defaults". Sysctls could be used to change this. A devd(8) is probably the correct way to change this. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | 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-arch" in the body of the message
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