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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:12:49 -0800
From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Proposal for a new watchdog interface using sysfs
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On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 05:55:53PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> think you need to care about that for now. Sysfs doesn't help here in
> the general case as it lacks persistant file permissions, but where it

	Oh, junk.  I liked this proposal a lot, but lack of persistent
permissions kills it pretty dead.

Joel


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