On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 01:53, Richard Gooch wrote: > > Also any permissions related configuration directives in > > /etc/devfs/conf.d/* will over-ride /etc/devfs/perms (so there's no > > real need to comment anything out of /etc/devfs/perms unless you are > > making permissions more restrictive and want to avoid race > > conditions). > > What race conditions are you referring to? Filesystem access to > entries is blocked until devfsd has finished processing all pending > events. So no process can ever see an intermediate state. Only devfsd > and it's children can bypass this block.
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