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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 22:19:48 +0000
Subject: Re: udev - TODO update
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:19:11PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 12:37, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > Oh come on.  You are so close to actually writing a patch that we can
> > use for udev that it's not even funny :)
> > 
> > Care to?
> 
> Yah, when I find the time. ;-)

I did it :)
Please have a look. If this is what you want, I will solve the klibc
beast. We don't need the same for the group ownership, or do we?

> I started doing it (and wrote the previous snippet of code) around the
> time of the "great daemonization" so I ended up holding off.  I recall I
> was also worried that, depending on when the permissions were parsed
> once we moved to a daemon, they could be a race.

Oh, I don't think that we still want the to implement daemon. udevd simply
calls our normal udev now and this seems to work well.
Or do I miss something? Greg?

thanks,
Kay

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===== udev-add.c 1.53 vs edited =====
--- 1.53/udev-add.c	Sat Feb 28 03:41:27 2004
+++ edited/udev-add.c	Sat Feb 28 23:04:22 2004
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 #include <grp.h>
 #ifndef __KLIBC__
 #include <pwd.h>
+#include <utmp.h>
 #endif
 
 #include "libsysfs/sysfs/libsysfs.h"
@@ -44,6 +45,8 @@
 #include "udevdb.h"
 #include "klibc_fixups.h"
 
+#define LOCAL_USER "$local"
+
 /* 
  * Right now the major/minor of a device is stored in a file called
  * "dev" in sysfs.
@@ -132,6 +135,37 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/* get the local logged in user */
+static void set_to_local_user(char *user)
+{
+	struct utmp *u;
+	time_t recent = 0;
+
+	strnfieldcpy(user, default_owner_str, OWNER_SIZE);
+	setutent();
+	while (1) {
+		u = getutent();
+		if (u == NULL)
+			break;
+
+		/* is this a user login ? */
+		if (u->ut_type != USER_PROCESS)
+			continue;
+
+		/* is this a local login ? */
+		if (strcmp(u->ut_host, ""))
+			continue;
+
+		if (u->ut_time > recent) {
+			recent = u->ut_time;
+			strfieldcpy(user, u->ut_user);
+			dbg("set to local user '%s'", user);
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+	endutent();
+}
+
 static int create_node(struct udevice *dev, int fake)
 {
 	struct stat stats;
@@ -175,6 +209,9 @@
 		if (endptr[0] == '\0')
 			uid = (uid_t) id;
 		else {
+			if (strncmp(dev->owner, LOCAL_USER, sizeof(LOCAL_USER)) == 0)
+				set_to_local_user(dev->owner);
+
 			struct passwd *pw = getpwnam(dev->owner);
 			if (pw == NULL)
 				dbg("specified user unknown '%s'", dev->owner);

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