Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Oct 1999 21:54:10 -0400 (EDT) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | RE: PUBLIC CHALLENGE: (was RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device a lloc ation) ) |
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On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Shawn Leas wrote:
> From: Stephen Frost [mailto:sfrost@mail.snowman.net] > Subject: Re: PUBLIC CHALLENGE: (was RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device > allocation) ) > > >> 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. > > > But it is to files inside a filesystem.. > > No different with devfsd if I catch your drift. (And I may not)
No... devfsd reads a config file and uses that to set the permissions on a file inside a (albiet only pseudo) filesystem. It is rather unlike fstab in that fstab handles the permissions for a filesystem, not for a file in the filesystem.
Stephen
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