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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Permissions in udev don't work when klibc is used ?
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:47:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1077533239.1105.1.camel@pim> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402231118.26239.remco@d-compu.dyndns.org>

On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 11:18, Remco wrote:
> I don't know if this has come up before but I noticed that permissions don't 
> work when klibc is used. The "create_node" function will report unknown users 
> and groups, using calls to "getpwnam" and "getgrnam".
> (compiled this way:
> ln -s /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build  klibc/klibc/
> make USE_KLIBC=true USE_LOG=true DEBUG=true -j4)
> 
> I also noticed that "klibc_fixups.h" contains the "getgrnam" and "getpwnam" 
> functions and lets them return NULL all of the time when USE_KLIBC is "true", 
> which seem to be the cause of the failure.
> 
> I suppose "getgrnam" and "getpwnam" simply haven't been incorporated in klibc 
> yet and that the lack of these two functions has been "fixed" this way, or am 
> I missing something ?
> 
> 
> P.S:
> Unless I overlooked it, maybe a fair warning should be in place to tell people 
> that permissions don't work when using klibc. (If my findings are correct off 
> course)

Hey, how about reading the man pages?

"If  udev  was  built using klibc or is used before the user database is
accessible (e.g.  initrd(4)), only numeric owner and group  values  may
be used."

thanks,
Kay




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  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-23 10:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-23 10:18 Permissions in udev don't work when klibc is used ? Remco
2004-02-23 10:47 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2004-02-23 14:01 ` Remco
2004-02-23 14:30 ` Kay Sievers
2004-02-23 15:18 ` Remco
2004-02-23 16:39 ` Olaf Hering
2004-02-23 18:31 ` Kay Sievers
2004-02-23 18:55 ` Olaf Hering
2004-02-23 19:01 ` Darren Salt
2004-02-23 19:10 ` Kay Sievers

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