From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:46:49 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev - simple klibc textual uid/gid handling Message-Id: <20040223184649.GC21904@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: <20040223181935.GA21904@vrfy.org> In-Reply-To: <20040223181935.GA21904@vrfy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ 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