Re: PUBLIC CHALLENGE: (was RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device alloc ation) )

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Fri, 08 Oct 1999 18:12:47 -0400

Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> said:
> /etc/fstab is a better one:

> /dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 user,ro,exec,nosuid,nodev,uid=<nnn> 0 0
>
> The "ro" is read only mode., the uid option defines the owner of the files. (FAT FS)

That is to map a non-Unix filesystem into something Unixy for
compatibility. FAT doesn't handle permissions on itself.

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