Re: PROPOSAL: /proc/dev

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Tue, 6 Jan 1998 00:48:21 +1100

Andrea Arcangeli writes:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, linux kernel account wrote:
>
> >Personaly, I would rather maintain the config file then the directory
> >structure..
>
> This is the only point that _sure_ I don' t agree with you. You don' t
> considered how manage modules device permission and ownership too.

Sigh. As I've said a few times now, the sysadmin can chmod()/chown()
the device manually and that change is preserved across reboots. I
agree with you that:

# chmod /dev/...

is a quite convenient way of configuring device protections. And we
can support that :-)

Regards,

Richard....