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Date:      Mon, 22 Apr 1996 13:30:11 +0400 (MSD)
From:      =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/etc security
Message-ID:  <199604220930.NAA00607@astral.msk.su>
In-Reply-To: <199604211858.UAA15018@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at "Apr 21, 96 08:58:58 pm"

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> As Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> > 
> > ache        96/04/19 15:28:03
> > 
> >   Modified:    etc       security
> >   Log:
> >   Exclude devices. Character ones modes changes often and proper names
> >   guessing involves too much AI.
> 
> Uh-oh, i really think i'd like to get alarmed if my disk devices were
> suddenly mode 0666 some day...

I just return to original variant.
I.e. I attempt to add device handling and then remove it.
The reason is that character devices change its mode/permissons/time
very often. The best thing can be supported is block devices only
without modification time, but it gains almost nothing because
raw devices not handled and nobody guaranteed that block device
can't change its modes and owner on the fly in general.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov        : And I rest so composedly,  /Now, in my bed,
ache@astral.msk.su       : That any beholder  /Might fancy me dead -
http://dt.demos.su/~ache : Might start at beholding me,  /Thinking me dead.
RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team :         E.A.Poe         From "For Annie" 1849



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