Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Oct 1999 20:50:13 -0400 (EDT) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation) |
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On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Shawn Leas wrote:
> >Names _are_ policy. So now I have to hack the kernel to rename the mouse? > > No. Used symlinks, which, with devfsd, BTW, are persistent.
A thought, that I'm sure has been said before, but...
/devices -- devfs mountpoint /dev -- symlinks in to /devices
devfs then adds option to have /devices just be a crapload of files named 'major,minor' in the old fashion. ;)
The problem here is, how do you give permissions to symlinks? That's really the kicker, but fix that, and you may have something...
I realize this is ugly, but some way to store the permissions in the symlink, or have something in there devfs can read real quick to determine if you have permission? I somehow fear a hardlink-type thing wouldn't work too well either, but this seems like something that should be possible to do, perhaps not, tired, end of day, time ta go home. :)
Stephen
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