From: Pavel Cahyna (pavel.cahynast.cuni.cz)
Date: Thu Aug 12 2004 - 02:48:20 CDT

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On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 23:20:46 +0000, David Laight wrote:
[ originally on netbsd-users ]

> The bit I read on Linux devfs I read made it completely broken (the driver
> has to supply the data area for every device it might have...)
>
> I have thought of doing it - but don't have the time.
> The plan was to copy kernfs - but make the drivers give skeleton
> information for complete sets of entries. So that items can exist is you
> try to open them, but 'ls' will only show things that it is sane to open.
>
> Also need to read a file to get non-driver entries and local permission
> changes.

It seems somebody already did something like a piece of devfs - see
/kern/rootdev and /kern/rrootdev . And apparently without caring about
local permission changes.

Isn't it a serious security problem? What if you don't want the group
"operator" to be able to read raw disks?

Bye Pavel

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