From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:40:48 +0000 Subject: Re: Bug#286040: please allow permissions.d to follow symlinks Message-Id: <20041217134048.GA9527@wonderland.linux.it> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC" List-Id: References: <20041217083115.GA4050@wonderland.linux.it> In-Reply-To: <20041217083115.GA4050@wonderland.linux.it> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Dec 17, Kay Sievers wrote: > Why you guys always want to make things more complicated as needed? Correctly handling permissions of symlinked nodes is consistency, not complexity. There is no reason to change the link owner or permissions, so it should be obvious that it's the linked file which should be changed. --=20 ciao, | Marco | [9876 seJzaYXFfXXiU] --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFBwuHgFGfw2OHuP7ERAoG6AJierN3CYy+FYEDsVsNZg+VNCIhtAKChUWsZ djdnSrzBR3GTCGdy3EWFig== =G8ei -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC-- ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ 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