From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:49:54 +0000 Subject: Re: udev: remove permissions file from udev Message-Id: <1103478594.5746.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <1103476209.5746.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1103476209.5746.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 18:31 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 19, Kay Sievers 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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ 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