kern/63954: devfs loses permissions

Marco Molteni mmolteni at cisco.com
Mon Jul 4 08:58:39 GMT 2005


On Friday 01 July 2005 12:05, Mike Makonnen wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:13:54PM +0200, Marco Molteni wrote:
> > Mike,
> >
> > Matteo was referring to devfs.conf, not devfs.rules.
>
> ahh ok.
>
> > devfs.conf should die, it is there to confuse people.
>
> I had thought about removing it, but it still does one thing
> devfs.rules can't do, namely symlinking. For devfs.rules to do
> symlinking devfs(8) needs to support it. I've been meaning to take a
> look at that for a while but keep putting it off.

I'd be very grateful if you founded the time to look at it, it would be 
a much needed clean-up IMHO.

thanks again
marco


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