Re: recent changes to udev

[Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>]

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On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 19:43 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:

>   /lib/udev/devices/
>      Real device nodes! Created with mknod, with the proper
>      permissions and ownership set. A bunch of symlinks and
>      nodes as a workaround for virtual devices or "broken"
>      kernel drivers. The whole content of this directory will
>      be copied over to the tmpfs mounted /dev at every boot
>      time.
>      If the user or a package has the need for a static node,
>      just place it there and it will be in /dev forever.
>      The reason for real nodes instead of a config file is that
>      using the "natural" interface to device nodes like mknod
>      chown, chmod is much easier to use than to invent another
>      file format. Also extendend attributes and ACL's may work
>      that way.
> 
Amusingly Debian policy currently forbids shipping device nodes in debs,
despite dpkg's reasonable support for them including dealing with
security implications.

I've dropped links.conf in the Ubuntu package though and am just going
to ship default device nodes in the package.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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