Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 8 Oct 1999 18:10:30 -0400 (EDT) | | From | Stephen Frost <> | | Subject | Re: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation) |
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On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Steve Dodd wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 03:00:44PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: > > > This is _horrible_. Suddenly there are files whose attributes aren't fixed > > by chmod(1)/chown(1), but by a magic file. > > Couldn't devfs forward permission changes via chmod/chown to the user space > daemon, which could update the database / magic file?
You're now hacking around the flaw, not a nice way to do it.
Stephen
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