On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, Stephen Frost wrote:
>=20
> Either way, it's something that is not a real filesystem trying to
> pretend it is. The problem of permissions being associated w/
> files was dealt with quite a while ago and has worked for a rather
> long time, why try and invent a new way?
>=20
> Stephen
>=20
Since when did procfs give persistence? In my bootup scripts I have various
things being echo'd > /proc/... -- I can't really see the difference
between doing that and adding a few more lines to change the permissions on
my /dev/ directory or whatever.
--=20
David Taylor
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