Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Oct 1999 22:42:35 -0400 (EDT) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | Re: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation) |
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On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, David Ford wrote:
> Stephen Frost 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. > > the nice way to do it is how quota is done.
Hrm, there's a thought, uhm, sorry to show my ignorance in some areas, but how is quota done? :)
Stephen
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