Re: USB device allocation

Jesse Pollard (pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil)
Tue, 5 Oct 1999 17:49:30 -0500 (CDT)

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
...
>Well, for one thing you just made your USB modem useless for dialout,
>since you can't set the proper permissions for whomever you want to be
>able to access your device. And they need to *stick* -- that implies
>persistent storage. I'm sure there are similar considerations for many
>other peripherals.

For dialout? the only time the data would change is over a crash. I doubt
a user job survives that (although with checkpoint it might, but should
fail to checkpoint with the device open). Second - the crash would
disconnect the line anyway. Or is there something I'm overlooking?

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Jesse I Pollard, II
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