Re: [PATCH] Only lookup uid/gid when applying rules

[Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>]

On Saturday 05 August 2006 03:05, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 02:49 +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> > On Saturday 05 August 2006 02:35, you wrote:
> > > Resolving in the event process will work around the current problem,
> > > that we fail, even if we don't have a matching device, that's true, but
> > > the real problem that we block still persists. Sure, it will solve
> > > Gentoo's "tss" problem, but that's not enough reason to add resolving
> > > of id's to every event process.
> >
> > So tell me how to fix this in udev.
>
> We may be able to handle a lookup timeout. You could set a reasonable
> bind_timelimit in ldap.conf, so it will not block for more than a few
> seconds.

Ok lets say that udev ships with a new rule that has a new user/group lookup 
called "foo".

You have instantly broken existing LDAP installs that do not have foo 
in /etc/passwd or /etc/group

Now should the onus be on distro's to magically add foo even though it *may* 
be not needed, or should it be on udev to work out if it even needs to lookup 
the user/group "foo"?

-- 
Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>
Gentoo/Linux Developer (baselayout, networking)

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