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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.

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