From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 22:43:25 +0000

Re: generic monitor test result

Tristan Wibberley wrote:
> 
> Marcus Sundberg wrote:
> > Well, then they could thrash the console contents instead, which is
> > almost as bad. Sometimes I really wish Linux/Unix had a sane
> > accesscontrol system. And depending on a userlevel app (login) setting
> > permissions when logging in/out is not my idea of sane...
> 
> Perhaps /dev should have a directory like proc (/dev/special?) with
> permissions controlled by the kernel, not just contents. Unfortunately
> this is out of our control.

Well, devfs is under development, but unfortunately I don't think it
will go into 2.2. It should fix some of the problems though.

//Marcus
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