On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:16:49AM -0800, Kip Macy wrote: > > Sorry, if I'm repeating something already said, but > > the tone of your mail would indicate that I'm not. > > > > This doesn't sound like an intrinsic limitation of > > devfs, just an issue with how it is structured now. > > There should just be a central file for all the > > devices which devfs sucks in at build (or maybe boot) > > time specifying the appropriate permissions and any > > other configuration information. > > No, the default permissions are specified in the driver source code > via make_dev().
The drivers only get the magic numbers for uids and gids from a central file. This is bad enough. I think all devices should have ownership root:wheel and mode 0600, but that would increase the problems with non-persistent attributes. devfs(8) may be able to handle this now. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
