Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Oct 1999 13:35:59 -0700 (PDT) | From | Matthew Dharm <> | Subject | Re: PUBLIC CHALLENGE: (was RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device alloc ation) ) |
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On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Stephen Frost wrote:
> /dev can be cleaned up using rm(1). devfs at one point used tarballs > to handle permissions, now it doesn't, it uses a configuration file, which > makes it even more strange and un-filesystem like. I don't use a config file > to specify my permissions on my / partition.
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.
Matt Dharm
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