On 2015-10-19, Josh Grosse <j...@jggimi.homeip.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 04:34:31AM +0200, Einfach Jemand wrote:
>> No. As far as I understand it:
>> The type (char or block), the major and minor number of the device
>> special file and its name are means to activate the corresponding device
>> handler ("driver") in the kernel and the bytes are sent to the device
>> specified by the file.
>
> Ok. I can at least tell you that the last time I tested an r/o
> /dev was at OpenBSD 3.8 or so, and the filesystem was CD9660 rather
> than FFS.
>
> It failed. So from that point, until I stopped making live media
> images at 5.0, I never tested again. /dev was merely one of a half
> dozen r/w filesystems I used with MFS.
Some devices get chown()ed during normal system operation, see fbtab(5).
