On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Wed 25 Jul 2001, Adam Heath wrote: > > > > What happens if the admin has set certain permissions on the device files, > > and > > you go and recreate them, thereby removing those permissions? > > > > So you say, that's easy to fix, I just won't recreate the devices if they > > already exist. Well, what happens if I remove only some of the device files > > in a set? Will the missing ones get recreated? > > This sounds like a job for an extra flag on MAKEDEV, to only create > devices that don't exist.
But that's not what I said. If I delete a few of the devices in a set, and your postinst just wants to create the entire set, then your extra flag will not help. Here's what I think should happen: * The package asks to create the device files. * Package calls MAKEDEV. * MAKEDEV sees it's a devfs system, and either does nothing, or registers perms appropriately with devfsd.
