Re: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation)

Stephen Frost (sfrost@ns.snowman.net)
Fri, 8 Oct 1999 22:42:35 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, David Ford wrote:

> Stephen Frost wrote:
>
> > > > This is _horrible_. Suddenly there are files whose attributes aren't fixed
> > > > by chmod(1)/chown(1), but by a magic file.
> > > Couldn't devfs forward permission changes via chmod/chown to the user space
> > > daemon, which could update the database / magic file?
> > You're now hacking around the flaw, not a nice way to do it.
>
> the nice way to do it is how quota is done.

Hrm, there's a thought, uhm, sorry to show my ignorance in some areas,
but how is quota done? :)

Stephen

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