From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev - simple klibc textual uid/gid handling
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:46:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040223184649.GC21904@vrfy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040223181935.GA21904@vrfy.org>
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:21:01AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 07:19:35PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > Here we get a very dumb getpwnam() and getgrnam() for klibc to
> > stop the confusion of not handling textual id's if klibc is used.
> >
> > If used with initrd we just need to copy the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
> > file and all should work well.
>
> Argh! I was just starting to work on this myself! Will I ever get to
> implement a new feature in udev again... :)
Oh, and I announced it today 4 hours ago on the list.
Maybe I need to cc you directly if new things are in work :)
Just to avoid conflicts:
The next thing I will do is to check the string handling
for overflows. :)
have a nice day,
Kay
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-23 18:19 [PATCH] udev - simple klibc textual uid/gid handling Kay Sievers
2004-02-23 18:21 ` Greg KH
2004-02-23 18:46 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2004-02-23 18:52 ` Greg KH
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