Re: [linux-hotplug-devel] Re: udev - TODO update

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:32:38AM +0100, Wout Mertens wrote:
> Sunday at 05:01, Kay Sievers ponderously produced:
> 
> > On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 05:37:10PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 17:19, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > >
> > > > I did it :)
> > > > Please have a look. If this is what you want, I will solve the klibc
> > > > beast.
> > >
> > > You are incredible, Kay.  This is exactly what I was planning.
> >
> > And this is exactly what I want to hear :)
> >
> > > Adding utmp parsing to klibc cannot be fun, though.. ;)
> >
> > Oh, it's only list of a static record in a file. So here is the first try.
> 
> Uhm, actually, you should use getpwuid() on a real system. /etc/group is
> just some old file. /etc/nsswitch.conf tells you where to find the real
> information, which could be on LDAP or whatnot. getent() does this for
> you.
> 
> Of course, klibc probably doesn't have getpwuid(). So for early
> userspace your implementation may be correct.
> 
> But consider my previous post: Why not just copy the permissions from
> /dev/console?

Because udev creates /dev/console :)

thanks,

greg k-h


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