Re: PROPOSAL: /proc/dev
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Thu, 1 Jan 1998 12:31:15 -0800 (PST)
On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > - You need to handle permissions some way. The obvious way is to make the
> > permissions very very restrictive and allow root to do a "chmod/chown"
> > on the files and remembering the new values. I see you suggested
>
> Device files can and do get owned by normal users and occasionally chowned
> by them - going user->uucp is the one odd case I can think of, no problem
> if you have chown in the fs tho and chown is easy
Sorry, I really meant "chmod" with proper privileges - the root thing was
due to chown..
Linus