Re: ownership of target of /dev/cdroms/cdroms0 in devfs

[Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

OK.  Sorry I wasn't thinking when I wrote the message, I should have known 
that!

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