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From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] DevFS support for /dev/cpu/X/(cpuid|msr)
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H. Peter Anvin writes:
> By author:    Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> > Incorrect.  See my new /proc/sys implementation patch.  It's hidden in the
> > flames somewhere...
> > 
> 
> So you chown an entry, then a module is unloaded and reloaded, now
> what happens?
> 
> It's the old "virtual filesystem which really wants persistence"
> issue again...

Works beautifully with devfs+devfsd :-)

Permissions get saved elsewhere in the namespace (perhaps even to the
underlying /dev) as you chown(2)/chmod(2)/mknod(2), and are restored
when entries are (re)created and/or at startup.

My /dev has persistence behaviour which looks like a FS with backing
store.

				Regards,

					Richard....
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