From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev - flag for preserving the ownership
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 11:14:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040603111443.GA11408@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40BCA49D.2000007@redhat.com>
On Thu, Jun 03, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Olaf Hering wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 03, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> >>What I also wish is a flag for the DB, which indicates that the file
> >>already existed and should not be removed with the "remove" ACTION.
> >
> >
> >That cant be the job of udev. If the device is not there, then noone
> >will need the device node. We can certainly argue about broken things
> >like md0 and similar chicken/egg problems.
> >
>
> Think of the administrator manually changing the ownership of device
> nodes. You cannot/will not want to teach them to edit the udev
> permissions file. Thus you have to preserve the node, if it was there
> before udev stepped in. With the old ownerships and permissions.
That would fail as well if one updates the devs.rpm. Either use udev and
its permissions config file, or dont use udev.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-03 11:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-01 15:45 udev - flag for preserving the ownership Harald Hoyer
2004-06-02 10:26 ` Harald Hoyer
2004-06-02 18:21 ` Olaf Hering
2004-06-03 8:16 ` Harald Hoyer
2004-06-03 10:59 ` Olaf Hering
2004-06-03 11:03 ` Harald Hoyer
2004-06-03 11:14 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
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