Re: MAKEDEV patch

[Miguel Bolanos <mike@linuxlabs.com>]

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Greetings,

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 14:13, Tommy McCabe wrote:
> This patch uses sudo to do the mknods in MAKEDEV.
> 

I'm affraid Eduardo's mail regarding this patch and the use of sudo
itself on the build system is right. I do realize the fact that we need
to be able to build elks stuff without a privileged user, but we will
have to work this in the future.

Anyways sorry. Patch Rejected.

Mike

> 
> --- ./elkscurr/elkscmd/rootfs_template/dev/MAKEDEV
> 2004-06-11 16:01:53.000000000 -0400
> +++ ./elks/elkscmd/rootfs_template/dev/MAKEDEV
> 2004-06-11 15:54:50.000000000 -0400
> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
>  # Refer to the MAKESET command, also in this
> directory, for usage details.
> 
>  LINK=ln
> -MKDEV=mknod
> +MKDEV=sudo -u root mknod
>  MKSET=./MAKESET
> 
>  ######################################################################################
> 
> 
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