Messages in this thread | | | From | "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH][RFC] Proposal for a new watchdog interface using sysf s | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:11:58 -0800 |
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> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 05:55:53PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > think you need to care about that for now. Sysfs doesn't > help here in > > the general case as it lacks persistant file permissions, > but where it > > Oh, junk. I liked this proposal a lot, but lack of persistent > permissions kills it pretty dead.
If by persistant you mean across reboots, you can do what devfs did; at shutdown, save the ones that change; at init, restore them -- some to sensible defaults, plus the saved changes. That's user space policy.
Or am I missing anything?
Inaky Perez-Gonzalez -- Not speaking for Intel - opinions are my own [or my fault]
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