On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 10:50:35AM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:

 > > Were we to ever decide to go with a real devfs that's created dynamically
 > > based on device discovery, the dev_t value could be relegated completely
 > > to the vfs layer.
 > 
 > How would you address the biggest concern I've heard with devfs - how to
 > handle permissions in a persistent manner?

In Solaris, IIRC, the devfs is actually /devices, and /dev/... are
symlinks to /devices/...  I seem to recall that the /devices nodes
have strict permissions, and the /dev symlinks have permissions that
override the permissions of the target ... or something.

It's been a while since I had to deal with this :-)

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>