kern/63954: devfs loses permissions

[Matteo Riondato]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:13:19PM +0300, Mike Makonnen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 06:27:44PM +0200, Matteo Riondato wrote:
> > Patch for this against /etc/rc.d/devfs follows and can be found at
> > http://www.riondabsd.net/diff/devfs.diff. Please note that this patch
> > includes fix for PR bin/65693 (wildcarded device names in devfs.conf
> > ). I hope someone will pick this up and commit the patch.
> > 
> 
> ummm... you have the right idea, except it has already been implemented for
> a while: devfs.rules(5). The devfs.conf(5) file is
> still with us because it does one thing devfs.rules(5) can't do, which is
> make symlinks (which it can't because devfs(8) can't :-))
> 
> So, what you should do is edit /etc/devfs.rules with:
> [myworkstation=500]
> add path bpf* mode 0640
> 
> Then edit /etc/rc.conf and add:
> devfs_system_ruleset=myworkstation

Then having any other kind of rule in devfs.conf should is kind of
useless, at least for devices that can "disappear", since rules
referring to them will not be added do the devfs ruleset, and this
implies that one have to rerun /etc/rc.d/devfs after reinserting the
pcmcia nic or after launching tcpdump or whatever.  
Anyway, I see that this is documented on devfs.conf(5), so you can
close this PR (and bin/65693 too).
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