Re: [PATCH, UDEV] fix permission inconsistency in relation to symlinks.

[Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>]

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Quoting Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>:
> On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 14:26 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > This fixes a rules.d permission apply inconsistency.
> > Here's an example of what happens without the patch:
> 
> > First case without the patch:
> > 
> > KERNEL="hd*", GROUP="disk", MODE="0660"
> > KERNEL="hdc", SYMLINK="cdrecorder", MODE="0666"
> > brw-rw----  1 root disk 22, 0 Feb  5 14:08 /dev/hdc
> 
> > Second case without the patch:
> > 
> > KERNEL="hd*", GROUP="disk", MODE="0660"
> > KERNEL="hdc", MODE="0666"
> > brw-rw-rw-  1 root disk 22, 0 Feb  5 14:08 /dev/hdc
> 
> Both cases are correct behavior in the current model, where symlink-only
> rules can not set the permissions of a node. It was the same with the
> "old" .permissions files.
> 
> Should we change that now, so that permissions are applied from a
> symlink-only rule too?

I was _very_ confused when I saw this behaviour. It took
me a lot of time to figure out what's really going on there and
how to workaround it.

> Kay
> 
> 
> 

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Regards Michael Buesch  [ http://www.tuxsoft.de.vu ]



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