From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:45:40 +0000 Subject: Re: Bug#286040: please allow permissions.d to follow symlinks Message-Id: <1103291141.14134.200.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <20041217083115.GA4050@wonderland.linux.it> In-Reply-To: <20041217083115.GA4050@wonderland.linux.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 14:38 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Kay Sievers [2004.12.17.1424 +0100]: > > Why you guys always want to make things more complicated as > > needed? > > You mean "less complicated"? Because we are Debian and therefore > make sure that things just work the way they are supposed to, no > more and no less. There is no point in changing symlink permissions. > What a user wants to do instead is change the permissions of the > device. So we should allow him/her to do so intuitively. > > Why bother having to use commands explicitly when there is already > a framework to do exactly that? Even if the framework has to be > extended, it's better to make use of it than to reinvent several > other wheels. Symlinks should not have any impact on the node. That's the concept, that makes more sense to me than the proposed magic. Kay ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel