On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lars Eggert writes: > > > > >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)? > > > > Symlinks permissions are not used in FreeBSD, only the permissions > > of whatever they point at is used. > > Do we think that devfs rules *should* apply to symlinks? I couldn't > quite make it work when I tried before, but I didn't try very hard, so > it's probably doable if it's desirable. Is it desirable, though? As > phk points out, symlink permissions aren't used, so is there a reason > besides aesthetics that one would want to change them? Likewise for > ownership. symlink ownership is used for sticky bit directories to determine if it can be deleted. This probably doesn't apply in the devfs case, but is a real restriction in UFS. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
