Subject: Re: default mode 600 for /dev/ttyp*
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: ITOH Yasufumi <itohy@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/21/2002 00:21:10 
In article <1fkd2cv.19voxwy1kfzi2mM@[10.0.12.137]>
manu@netbsd.org writes:

> Why do we create the devices mode 666?

Required for un-privileged processes to use ptys.
script(1), window(1) for example.

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ITOH Yasufumi