In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Matthew Dillon writes:
: Personally speaking I don't see how permission persistence could possibly
: be implemented within DEVFS itself without a huge amount of work. I'm
: not sure it would be appropriate to implement it there anyhow when it
: is so easy to just make the necessary changes in rc.local.
I wrote about 50% of a devd that would sit and watch a /devfs mounted
tree, recording changes to it and would then replay those changes when
it was started again. I ran into some interesting problems making it
fast, but this work predates jdp's work on having a tree watching
interface. rc.local is a religious war and a security nightmare
waiting to happen :-).
Warner
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