Comment on devfs.conf

[Wilko Bulte]

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:55:41PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <200305151653.43540.jeff at walters.name>, Jeff Walters writes:
> >The new /etc/devfs.conf arrangement is a good thing but it doesn't work for 
> >devices that are created on the fly after boot, and it gives an error on 
> >wildcards on device names.  
> >
> >I suggest for /etc/rc.d/devfs that instead of changing the permissions and 
> >ownerships directly on device nodes, create a default devfs ruleset based on 
> >/etc/devfs.conf entries and apply the set.  For example, previously you could 
> >modify /etc/rc.devfs with the logic like:
> 
> I must admit that I should have looked at this, now that I have, I fully
> agree:  The policy setup at boot should be not just applied once, but
> made the default ruleset.

Would/should this be 5.1-R material?

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