Re: (Semi-random) thoughts on device tree structure and devfs

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>>> Lack of chmod/chown/etc in /dev would be a total showstopper (for
>>> me, at the very least) for production use.
>> Could you tell me the senario how it sucks?
> [...example, plain user access to serial line...]

That's one of the scenarios I've run into, though for me it's at least
as often been something other than a serial line - on my scanner
machine, for example, /dev/scanner is a symlink to /dev/uk0, and
/dev/uk0 is mode 600 owner mouse.

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