From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:45:07 +0000 Subject: Re: udev - TODO update Message-Id: <1077896707.1698.6.camel@pim> List-Id: References: <20040212234538.GC21117@vrfy.org> In-Reply-To: <20040212234538.GC21117@vrfy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 12:03, Robert McMeekin wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 19:49, Robert Love wrote: > > > 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. > > In devfsd.conf you were able to put a '-1' in for the for the current > local user when setting PERMISSIONS, and it worked great [1]. I wonder > what people used this for though. Are you really sure? A -1 as the uid or gid means, that it shouldn't changed when chmod() is called. I don't think, that it means anything like a local user. Kay ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel