From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug#286040: please allow permissions.d to follow symlinks
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:50:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041217155047.GA18167@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041217083115.GA4050@wonderland.linux.it>
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 03:52:11PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> [2004.12.17.1545 +0100]:
> > > > If yes, please point me to the chmod() of a symlink. I will
> > > > fix it.
> > > I was giving an example.
> > And where is the pointer to the code to proof your loud/proud
> > claim?
>
> Why do you need a pointer? Please consider standard usage scenarios
> instead!
>
> You are defending the integrity of your code when I try to tell you
> that it does not optimally service the user. Your code is fine, I am
> arguing that you should take a different perspective to permissions
> management: a perspective that is pragmatic, not theoretical and
> pedantic.
Oh my word.
Sorry, but Kay is correct. udev isn't going to be changed to modify the
permissions of the target of the symlink. udev has the capability to
properly change the permissions based on a rule or a external program.
Please use that facitilty to do what you want it to do.
> > > If you ask me, permissions.d list should be extended by inner
> > > join with the symlinks list for each node. Then I would not have
> > > to touch symlinks and only the actual device pointed to gets
> > > changed.
> >
> > I don't ask you. Please try to convince somebody else.
>
> Oh bother, why is it that open source developers always assume that
> they are smarter than the rest of the world?
When obviously, the open source users are the smarter ones. Sorry for
forgetting this fact.
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-17 8:31 Bug#286040: please allow permissions.d to follow symlinks Marco d'Itri
2004-12-17 10:11 ` Stefan Schweizer
2004-12-17 10:48 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 13:24 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 13:38 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 13:40 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-12-17 13:45 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 13:47 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 13:49 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-12-17 13:56 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 13:58 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 14:13 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 14:19 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 14:20 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 14:35 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 14:36 ` Stefan Schweizer
2004-12-17 14:42 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 14:45 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 14:52 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 15:50 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-12-17 16:14 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 16:45 ` Greg KH
2004-12-17 17:10 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 17:45 ` Stefan Schweizer
2004-12-17 18:33 ` Greg KH
2004-12-17 18:40 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 23:25 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 23:41 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-18 0:25 ` Lindsay Haisley
2004-12-18 0:53 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-18 1:18 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-18 3:04 ` Greg KH
2004-12-18 4:18 ` Lindsay Haisley
2004-12-18 4:21 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-18 9:48 ` Stefan Schweizer
2004-12-18 12:33 ` Tobias Klauser
2004-12-18 13:04 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-12-19 4:34 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-12-20 9:39 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-20 17:56 ` Lindsay Haisley
2004-12-20 18:04 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-20 19:05 ` Lindsay Haisley
2004-12-21 8:04 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-21 16:11 ` Lindsay Haisley
2004-12-21 16:31 ` Lindsay Haisley
2004-12-21 16:38 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-21 16:48 ` Tobias Klauser
2004-12-21 16:54 ` Greg KH
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