On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:49:29PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: > Hello Hans, > > * Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky_at_c2i.net> wrote: > > Basically there is nothing wrong with using chmod and chown. Hence USB > > has its own directory system which is not part of devfs, it was > > natural to also have a separate utility to set the permissions and > > ownership, which might become more complicated than simply a user and > > group. At EuroBSDcon this year I got some ideas about defining > > functional permission groups, like permissions for all USB keyboards > > for example, instead of permissions for individual devices. This > > pradigm will then break with chmod and chown. > > But that's not the right direction. If we really want to do such things, > we should add ACL support to devfs, which is already something we > eventually want to do. I don't agree that we should create yet another > namespace with permissions instead of using the traditional /dev > directory. I'm working on migrating this to make_dev(9), so USB devices will get created like everything else and thus work properly using devfs et al. -- Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "Anyway boys, this is America. Just because you get more votes doesn't mean you win." - Fox MulderReceived on Fri Nov 07 2008 - 17:55:20 UTC
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