From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev silently ignores bad config file names
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 21:17:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040604211741.GC13651@kroah.com> (raw)
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 11:16:45PM +0200, Erik S?e S?rensen wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> In udev-025, bad config file names for rules and permissions are
> silently ignored. Worse yet: even if the permission config file name is
> correct, the file won't be loaded if the rules file name is incorrect
> (e.g., doesn't exist).
>
> A crude fix is attached. It just reports that there are problems with
> reading a certain config file; this could of course be improved a lot.
> - The nature of the error should be written.
I agree, care to change this to report which file could not be read?
> - I don't know if the error report should go to stderr, the log, or
> both.
There is no stderr when udev is running :)
The log is all we have.
> - Finally, I'm not sure how much sense it makes that the permissions
> file is not attempted read if reading the rules file failed..?
We should plod onward, as the user could just be relying on the default
permission and root:root ownership, as is the case for the root disk
when booting in a initrd/initramfs image.
thanks,
greg k-h
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