RE: PUBLIC CHALLENGE: (was RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device a

Shawn Leas (SLEAS@videoupdate.com)
Fri, 8 Oct 1999 14:44:55 -0500


From: Stephen Frost [mailto:sfrost@mail.snowman.net]
Subject: Re: PUBLIC CHALLENGE: (was RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device
allocation) )

>> I hate to point this out... but if the objection is to configuration
>> files, then what about /etc/fstab and the mount options that allow me to
>> mount CD-ROM drives and MS-DOS/FAT32 partitions as various users with
>> various permissions?
>>
>> The use of a config file to determine permissions/ownership is not
foreign
>> to the kernel or filesystems.

> But it is to files inside a filesystem..

No different with devfsd if I catch your drift. (And I may not)

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