> Devices in /proc bring the problem which permissions would they have. The
> nice thing about /dev is that you can easily change them permanently.
> There could be code for /proc/dev which would set up some default permissions and
> owner/groups and then allow the user to modify it, but none of these changes
> could be permanent... Admins would have to write rc scripts, which would set
> up permissions on those devices as they want to. This is not worth the
> effort, I think.
That is only a limitation of the implementation in your mind. I trust
the Linux developers to do things the Right Way<tm>. Otherwise their
efforts will be largely ignored or deleted.
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