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

Shawn Leas (SLEAS@videoupdate.com)
Thu, 7 Oct 1999 16:29:43 -0500


From: Steve Dodd [mailto:dirk@loth.demon.co.uk]
Subject: Re: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation)

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

This is not needed... Don't believe the hype. With, or
without devfsd, you can

chmod
chown
ln -s
ls -l
mkfifo /tmp/hda && (cat /dev/hda > /tmp/hda &) && strings /tmp/hda >
/dev/null && echo "DUH"

All you want.

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