Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:49:51 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: abial@webgiro.com (Andrzej Bialecki) Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon), louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos), obrien@NUXI.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/chown Makefile Message-ID: <199912150149.RAA20783@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912150142100.6917-100000@mx.webgiro.com> from Andrzej Bialecki at "Dec 15, 1999 01:47:41 am"
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> On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > : > > > :So, do we need to wait until the perfect solution until any progress > > > :can be made at all? The place that I suspect most folks trip across > > > :the chown problem is when making new device nodes for disk devices. > > > > I would solve this problem by adding options to 'mknod' to allow the > > > user & group to be specified, and leaving chown where it was before. > > Why do you all insist on tweaking the whole OS to play by MAKEDEV rules, > instead of trying to invent a way to reduce its dependancy on external > tools? IMVHO all of the needed functions are already part of libc, so it > makes sense to do it in C instead of /bin/sh. This sounds like a promissing idea, read and parse a text file that describes device nodes. Kinda act like mtree(8) only for device nodes. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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