On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
> 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 :-).
Well, with devd or devfsd its still going to read the persistant store
when started by the system on reboot; I'd imagine you'd be able to
make checkpoint intervals tunable and tell it which permission updates you
wanted to ignore and use the defaults; tty devices come to mind.
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