Re: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation)

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 7 Oct 1999 20:42:50 +0100


On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 03:00:44PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:

> This is _horrible_. Suddenly there are files whose attributes aren't fixed
> by chmod(1)/chown(1), but by a magic file.

Couldn't devfs forward permission changes via chmod/chown to the user space
daemon, which could update the database / magic file?

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