Re: udev - TODO update

[Mike Waychison <Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM>]

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Greg KH wrote:
| On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 08:23:44PM -0500, Mike Waychison wrote:
|
|>Greg KH wrote:
|>| On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 07:49:22PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
|>|
|>|>On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 19:41, Kay Sievers wrote:
|>|>
|>|>
|>|>>Seems that nobody cares and perhaps the recent klibc permission changes
|>|>>and the multiple file config directory are enough to kill these
lines? :)
|>|>
|>|>One thing I would like is the ability to put an identifier in the config
|>|>file, say $local, and have the device node's permission set to that of
|>|>the current local user.
|>|
|>|
|>| And how does a program determine the "current local user"?
|>|
|>
|>How about:
|>
|>w | awk '$2=":0" {print $1}'
|
|
| Sure doesn't work for me on any of my boxes.
|

Hmm, maybe we have different procps versions (2.0.13 here).  Either way,
this is a variation on the utmp approach.

| And remember, udev doesn't want to have to call w and awk :)

Understood, this could be done some other way just as easily as Robert
Love demonstrated :)

I thought the /usr/* thing was solely an early initscript limitation. I
guess it's also a limitation on embedded platforms (who wouldn't use
$local anyway).

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