The following reply was made to PR kern/75233; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christoph Mallon <[email protected]>
To: John Baldwin <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: kern/75233: [fdc] breaking fdformat /dev/fd0 resets device 
permissions
 and perhaps causes unkillable process
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:13:16 +0100

 On 30.03.2012 16:07, John Baldwin wrote:
 > You need to use devfs rules for this instead.  The /dev/fd0 device can
 > come and go with media changes.  To make permissions on /dev/fd0
 > persistent you need to teach devfs (via a rule) to use the desired
 > permissions on each fd0 device.
 
 Quote from the description:
 > %ls -l /dev/fd0
 > crw-r----- 1 root operator 232, 0 16 Dez 21:41 /dev/fd0
 > %tail -1 /etc/devfs.conf
 > perm fd0 0660
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 Though I haven't used floppy disks in years, I still think there is a bug.
 
        Christoph
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