Re: devfs - why not ?

From: Chip Salzenberg (chip@valinux.com)
Date: Thu Apr 13 2000 - 03:44:31 EST


According to Horst von Brand:
> I wouldn't want to have to set permissions on my files by editing a
> file, which can (and Murphy assures us, _will_) get lost or corrupted.

As if file permissions can't be lost or corrupted already? Just last
week, actually, I had a carefully built filesystem vandalized by an
accidental "chmod -r".

-- 
Chip Salzenberg              - a.k.a. -              <chip@valinux.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K

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