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 15:33 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > On Feb 05, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Should we change that now, so that permissions are applied from a
> > > symlink-only rule too?
> > Yes!
> > I think it's the sensible semantic: the second rule adds a new SYMLINK
> > *and* sets the permissions of the node, which are two distinct
> > operations applied by the same rule.
> 
> Yeah, we should do that now.
> 
> > Unless you think it's broken, I will add the patch to the debian package
> > of 051 (almost ready).
> 
> I think we can make it even simpler, by applying the permission
> unconditionally, right?

Yes, seems correct.
A first test showed that this works.

PS: Please CC: me on this topic, as I'm not subscribed to the mailing list.
Thanks.

> Thanks,
> Kay
> 

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