From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott James Remnant Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:39:31 +0000 Subject: Re: recent changes to udev Message-Id: <1131586772.21401.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-NrUkVLqp/ziFjL4APja3" List-Id: References: <20051108184308.GB7254@vrfy.org> In-Reply-To: <20051108184308.GB7254@vrfy.org> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --=-NrUkVLqp/ziFjL4APja3 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 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 --=20 Scott James Remnant scott@ubuntu.com --=-NrUkVLqp/ziFjL4APja3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDcqTTSnQiFMl4yK4RAplTAJ4j5Kyth/ydELvS2ti4/U0pXkdF1QCgoBCM 24wTKAnrD2/twlLnevHjeRE= =UyQ5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-NrUkVLqp/ziFjL4APja3-- ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ 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