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

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Thu, 7 Oct 1999 13:08:53 -0700 (PDT)

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On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Steve Dodd wrote:
> 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?

Or devfs could be modified to be able to 'overmount' /dev. Then no magic
file is needed.

-Dan

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