Re: Suggested dual human/binary interface for proc/devfs

From: Johannes Erdfelt (jerdfelt@sventech.com)
Date: Thu Apr 13 2000 - 11:46:07 EST


On Thu, Apr 13, 2000, Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl'> wrote:
>
> Bingo! Keep devices in inodes on disk. To do persistence right, you'll have
> to keep them in inodes on disk anyway... so this whole kludge can go.
> Solves the different devices visible with different permissions in
> different chroot(2)s too, without any extra effort.

Actually, this won't work wiht PNP devices, like USB. We want the
permissions to follow the device, not whatever device node it was
assigned this particular time.

JE

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