Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lars Eggert writes: > > >>[root@nik: /etc] rm /dev/acd0c >>[root@nik: /etc] umask 0007 && ln -s /dev/acd0c /dev/acd0 >>ln: /dev/acd0: File exists >> >>Which is really a strange error, since /dev/acd0c is gone: > > > Nothing which the kernel has created in /dev/ is really gone > when you rm(1) it, it merely gets hidden. > > Think of it as "the kernel has priority in selecting names". > > Now, if you had > rm /dev/null > you could recreate it with > mknod /dev/null c 0 0 > (the "c 0 0" arguments have to be there, but are ignored). > > I guess it's a flaw that you can't recreate the symlink in > a similar fashion.
So there is no more usermount under -current with devfs? Or is there another way to have the symlinks be created with the different permissions (since devfs rules don't seem to apply to them)? Lars -- Lars Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> USC Information Sciences Institute
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