Re: udev: remove permissions file from udev

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 18:31 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Dec 19, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> 
> > To get this working, the current rules file needs to be updated. I
> It may be better to use default_mode="0660", I do not think that there
> are any mode 600 devices. This would allow setting only the group for
> most of them.

Good point and sounds reasonable as the default group is root anyway.

> (Feature request: would it be possible to extend the rules files parser
> to support continuation lines? I'd like it to consider lines starting
> with white space as part of the previous line.)

What about a backslash at the end of the line?

> > started to convert the gentoo and the Fedora file available in the tree.
> > Any help here is appreciated, cause we need to be sure, that it will
> > work before we make a new release. I've tested both distributions
> Don't bother with the debian files, I will send updated ones later.

Nice, thanks.

> > # pty devices
> > KERNEL="pty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*",	NAME="pty/m%n", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="tty", MODE="0660"
> > KERNEL="tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*",	NAME="pty/s%n", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="tty", MODE="0660"
> Do 2.6 kernels really still support BSD pty devices?

I don't know.

> > # gpm devices
> > KERNEL="gpmctl",	NAME="%k", MODE="0700"
> This is a pipe or socket, it has never been a device.

I've just ported it from the permissions file. So this can be removed,
yes.

Kay



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