From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, UDEV] fix permission inconsistency in relation to
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 14:29:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1107613775.5494.74.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502051426.14173.mbuesch@freenet.de>
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 14:26 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> This fixes a rules.d permission apply inconsistency.
> Here's an example of what happens without the patch:
> First case without the patch:
>
> KERNEL="hd*", GROUP="disk", MODE="0660"
> KERNEL="hdc", SYMLINK="cdrecorder", MODE="0666"
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 Feb 5 14:08 /dev/hdc
> Second case without the patch:
>
> KERNEL="hd*", GROUP="disk", MODE="0660"
> KERNEL="hdc", MODE="0666"
> brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 22, 0 Feb 5 14:08 /dev/hdc
Both cases are correct behavior in the current model, where symlink-only
rules can not set the permissions of a node. It was the same with the
"old" .permissions files.
Should we change that now, so that permissions are applied from a
symlink-only rule too?
Kay
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-05 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-05 13:26 [PATCH, UDEV] fix permission inconsistency in relation to symlinks Michael Buesch
2005-02-05 14:29 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2005-02-05 14:33 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-02-05 14:54 ` Michael Buesch
2005-02-05 14:58 ` [PATCH, UDEV] fix permission inconsistency in relation to Kay Sievers
2005-02-05 15:09 ` [PATCH, UDEV] fix permission inconsistency in relation to symlinks Michael Buesch
2005-02-05 15:20 ` [PATCH, UDEV] fix permission inconsistency in relation to Kay Sievers
2005-02-05 15:25 ` [PATCH, UDEV] fix permission inconsistency in relation to symlinks Michael Buesch
2005-02-05 15:30 ` [PATCH, UDEV] fix permission inconsistency in relation to Kay Sievers
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