Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)

Edward S. Marshall (emarshal@logic.net)
Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:48:38 -0500 (CDT)


On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Dan Hollis wrote:
> I cant be the only one who would like to do something like:
>
> # chown named /proc/sys/net/permissions/udp/53
> # chown named /proc/sys/net/permissions/tdp/53
>
> And then run named non-root.

Ye ghods, yes. What do you get when you readdir()
/proc/sys/net/permissions/udp? All currently bound sockets? 65k files?
(The former would obviously be preferred...)

I have to admit, I think this (conceptually) fits better in the realm of
devfs. /proc just seems wrong for anything like this, but maybe it's my
distaste of /proc being polluted for configuration controls showing.

-- 
Edward S. Marshall <emarshal@logic.net>       [ What goes up, must come down. ]
http://www.logic.net/~emarshal/               [ Ask any system administrator. ]

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