Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 13:09:54 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> Cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), current@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@village.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ccd ccd.c src/sys/dev/vn vn.c src/sys/sys conf.h src/sys/i386/isa fd.c mcd.c scd.c wcd.c wd.c wt.c s Message-ID: <20261.838411794@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Jul 1996 21:37:22 %2B0200." <3119.838409842@critter.tfs.com>
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> There are a couple of fine points still not resolved. > There is >still< no way to generally specify a policy: > "Make all disks foo.bar mode 0640" You wouldn't be losing anything though - we don't have this now! :-) You could still make the foo.bar devices underneath and chmod them 640, which is not as elegant, no, but still gives the "traditional" UNIX user a solution which makes sense. I wouldn't leave this as a sticking point since the proposal solves so many of the problems people have been complaining about so far, it should just be done. > Why would we even care about the type of node apart from "Directory" or > "Not Directory" ? Ie, we could mount devfs on a FS that doesn't support > c/b devs at all (msdos, hfs ...) I suppose that's true too! If you found a regular file named fd0a with perms 700 then you'd just borrow the perms and ignore the type? Jordan
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