Re: calling MAKEDEV from postinst
On Wed 25 Jul 2001, Adam Heath wrote:
>
> What happens if the admin has set certain permissions on the device files, and
> you go and recreate them, thereby removing those permissions?
>
> So you say, that's easy to fix, I just won't recreate the devices if they
> already exist. Well, what happens if I remove only some of the device files
> in a set? Will the missing ones get recreated?
This sounds like a job for an extra flag on MAKEDEV, to only create
devices that don't exist.
Paul Slootman
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