scanning sysfs to populate /dev

phil-news-nospam_at_ipal.net
Date: 04/25/05 

Date: 25 Apr 2005 21:41:57 GMT

When scanning sysfs to populate /dev, how should such a program decide
which files have which owner, group, and access permissions. I can
figure a way, but I'm checking to see if there is some accepted common
way or standard for this. Unfortunately, sysfs doesn't have the info.
Normally this would be in a /dev directory on the root filesystem. But
how should this be done for a dynamically created /dev using sysfs in
lieu of the depricated devfs? 

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