Re: Call for Assistance - udev

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

On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 10:36 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On 8/24/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@ums.usu.ru> wrote:
> >   
> >> 2) Mismatch between /dev/random and /dev/urandom permissions:
> >> KERNEL="...|random", MODE="0666"
> >> KERNEL="urandom", MODE="0644"
> >>     
> >
> > You can write to random to add entropy to the pool. I guess, you can't
> > write to urandom.
> >   
> 
> The drivers/char/random.c file says:
> 
> const struct file_operations random_fops = {
>         .read  = random_read,
>         .write = random_write,
>         .poll  = random_poll,
>         .ioctl = random_ioctl,
> };
> 
> const struct file_operations urandom_fops = {
>         .read  = urandom_read,
>         .write = random_write,
>         .ioctl = random_ioctl,
> };
> 
> So there is no valid reason for this mismatch.

Fine. I updated the rules.

Thanks,
Kay


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