Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Jun 1999 09:26:55 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) |
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Horst von Brand writes: > o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s (david parsons) said: > > [...] > > > Symlinks are your friend. If you can't live without the dubious > > benefit of having the kernel not tell you information, but instead > > have to guess about what devices are, you can do this with symlinks. > > Yet again: How do you manage permissions on this cleanly? It has to > be persistent (no "OK, after we boot this tiny script fixes up the > whole mess")? How do you propose to manage default permissions for > devices that might suddenly appear out of nowhere (i.e., USB or > hot-pluggable PCI or PCMCIA or...)? No, "one size fits all" won't > do.
You actually haven't looked at devfsd, have you?
> I'm not against some devfs type scheme per se, but this is > important, and devfs makes this problem _worse_ without solving much > of the other problems that are there. The current way of populating > /dev with everything there might ever be is broken, but gives you a > clean, uniform way of setting persistent permissions using standard > tools.
Actually, devfs makes it better. Devfs allows you to have a shared NFS read-only root and still have a mutable /dev. And you can have persistence too!
Regards,
Richard....
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