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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: mount option 'nodev'
Message-ID: <8439@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 20 Jun 91 20:24:28 GMT
References: <1991Jun13.213712.27559@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> <691@silence.princeton.nj.us> <1991Jun14.081027.22575@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >I agree.  I don't understand the value of the "nosuid" option when making
 >your own /dev/kmem gives you the whole boat anyway.  But then, Sun ships
 >its operating system with a "+" in /etc/hosts.equiv.  :-(
 >
 >I'm holding out for 4.4BSD on my SPARC so I can fix things like this
 >myself.  I won't live long enough to wait for Sun to do it for me.

Hell, I fixed the SunOS running on Auspex boxes so that "nosuid" implies
"nodev" (is there *any* reason whatsoever to have two separate knobs, as
HP does?) a while ago, and even sent the changes to Sun; it ain't that
hard.