| paper.me (90a5520170c321d73d92bd9ef0fe274fccc3596f) | paper.me (f8fc629c0f982ff1352d0a76b37b899148c915c5) |
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| 1.\" format with ditroff -me 2.\" $FreeBSD$ 3.\" format made to look as a paper for the proceedings is to look 4.\" (as specified in the text) 5.if n \{ .po 0 6. ll 78n 7. na 8.\} --- 458 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 467``/dev/da0'', but so does the RAID-5 array attached to the PCI SCSI controller 468installed in my laptop's docking station. If I change mode to ``a+rw'' 469on the Zip drive, do I want that mode to apply to the RAID-5 as well? 470Unlikely. 471.lp 472And what if we have persistent information about the mode of 473device ``/dev/sio0'', but we boot and do not find any sio devices? 474Do we keep the information in our device-persistence registry? | 1.\" format with ditroff -me 2.\" $FreeBSD$ 3.\" format made to look as a paper for the proceedings is to look 4.\" (as specified in the text) 5.if n \{ .po 0 6. ll 78n 7. na 8.\} --- 458 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 467``/dev/da0'', but so does the RAID-5 array attached to the PCI SCSI controller 468installed in my laptop's docking station. If I change mode to ``a+rw'' 469on the Zip drive, do I want that mode to apply to the RAID-5 as well? 470Unlikely. 471.lp 472And what if we have persistent information about the mode of 473device ``/dev/sio0'', but we boot and do not find any sio devices? 474Do we keep the information in our device-persistence registry? |
| 475How long do we keep it? If I borrow a modem card, | 475How long do we keep it? If I borrow a a modem card, |
| 476set the permissions to some non-standard value like 0666, 477and then attach some other serial device a year from now - do I 478want some old permissions changes to come back and haunt me, 479just because they both happened to be ``/dev/sio0''? 480Unlikely. 481.lp 482The fact that more people have laptop computers today than 483five years ago, and the fact that nobody has been able to credibly --- 794 unchanged lines hidden --- | 476set the permissions to some non-standard value like 0666, 477and then attach some other serial device a year from now - do I 478want some old permissions changes to come back and haunt me, 479just because they both happened to be ``/dev/sio0''? 480Unlikely. 481.lp 482The fact that more people have laptop computers today than 483five years ago, and the fact that nobody has been able to credibly --- 794 unchanged lines hidden --- |