Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release

[Steven Dake <sdake@mvista.com>]

Greg KH wrote:

>On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:48:17PM -0700, David Lang wrote:
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>>ant then you also have all the same problems as devfs about default
>>permissions, making permissions persistant across reboots, etc.
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>You can store the default permissions in the database you use to store
>the naming data.  This solves the reboot problem, as long as you can
>convince people to not modify the permissions on their own (well even if
>they do, at shutdown, you can always validate that they are the same
>before you clean up the node.)
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>And provide an easy way for users to change the permissions so they show
>up in the database.
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>devchmod and devchown anyone?  :)
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Greg,

I've been thinking of how to solve this particular problem, and believe 
you could use dnotify in a daemon to track permission and ownership 
changes and store them in a backing database.  In fact, we do something 
similiar to this today.  This allows the user to use any type of 
application for changing permissions/owners, even syscalls directly 
without having to go "through" any sort of tracking database.

>thanks,
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>greg k-h
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