Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Oct 1999 18:42:45 -0400 (EDT) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation) |
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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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