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SubjectRE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation)
On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Shawn Leas wrote:

> From: Steve Dodd [mailto:dirk@loth.demon.co.uk]
> Subject: Re: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation)
>
> >Couldn't devfs forward permission changes via chmod/chown to the user space
> >daemon, which could update the database / magic file?
>
> This is not needed... Don't believe the hype. With, or
> without devfsd, you can
>
> chmod
> chown
> ln -s
> ls -l
> mkfifo /tmp/hda && (cat /dev/hda > /tmp/hda &) && strings /tmp/hda >
> /dev/null && echo "DUH"
>
> All you want.

Until you reboot.

Stephen


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