src/sbin/devfs/rule.c, branch upstream/11.0.0

Spelling fixes for sbin/

2012-01-07T16:09:33Z

Add missing static keywords for global variables to tools in sbin/.

2011-11-04T13:36:02Z

These tools declare global variables without using the static keyword, even though their use is limited to a single C-file, or without placing an extern declaration of them in the proper header file.

o Typo in the error message: s/invald/invalid.

2006-01-05T13:37:07Z

PR: misc/91341 Submitted by: Guy Harris

Remove filtering on major device number. These are assigned randomly

2005-02-27T17:22:36Z

these days so filtering on them makes no sense other than as a foot-shooting device.

Parse file mode with setmode(3) for consistency with other programs

2004-11-06T11:03:59Z

that do this kind of thing.

Userland signed char fixes for PPC build. Problems were using a char

2004-01-22T07:23:36Z

return for getopt() and comparing to -1, ditto with fgetc() and EOF, and using the kg_nice value from Submitted by: Stefan Farfeleder Reviewed by: obrien, bde (a while back) Tested lightly on: ppc, i386, make universe

Nuke whitespace at EOL.

2002-07-28T06:59:40Z

What we're actually passing around is an ioctl request, not a command,

2002-07-28T06:57:13Z

and it's an unsigned long, not an int.

Implement this (quoted from the updated man page): If the first token

2002-07-28T06:45:30Z

of a rule specification is a single dash (``-''), rules are read from the standard input and the rest of the specification is ignored.

Introduce the DEVFS "rule" subsystem. DEVFS rules permit the

2002-07-17T01:46:48Z

administrator to define certain properties of new devfs nodes before they become visible to the userland. Both static (e.g., /dev/speaker) and dynamic (e.g., /dev/bpf*, some removable devices) nodes are supported. Each DEVFS mount may have a different ruleset assigned to it, permitting different policies to be implemented for things like jails. Approved by: phk