Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: /proc/dev (new idea) | Date | Thu, 08 Jan 1998 10:21:14 -0800 | From | Stephen Williams <> |
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linker@nightshade.z.ml.org said: > No one has advocated having the KERNEL update config files.. Thats > upto a userspace util..
> A reasonable default is root.root mode 700... Although the most > conserviatve of all possible modes, it would still allow a root shell > to work just fine.
I propose including the default permissions in the register_chrdev (or better yet register_device_node) function. In many cases, this will eliminate the need to have anything other then the default permissions. -- Steve Williams steve@icarus.com steve@picturel.com
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And lines to code before I sleep, And lines to code before I sleep."
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