Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:41:00 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody working on devd? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111280940210.28332-100000@beppo> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011128113543.37721K-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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> Generally speaking, it seems desirable the devices would appear in /dev > with conservative permissions, and then userland policy might adjust those > permissions to be more liberal based on files in /etc, and so on. I think that if this is the case, there's no point in device drivers knowing about permissions at all, and shouldn't be even *allowed* to set them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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