Hello. David Newall wrote: > Tetsuo Handa wrote: > > /dev needs to be writable, but this means that files on /dev might be > > tampered with. > > I infer that you mean /dev needs to be writable by anyone, not by just > its owner or owner and group (conventionally root/root.) This goes > against conventional wisdom, which is that /dev must be writable only by > the administrator. Why do you say otherwise? I didn't mean that "/dev is writable by everybody". I meant that "/dev must be mounted for read-write mode" (even if one wants to mount / for read-only mode). Regards. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
