From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Hoyer Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 11:03:02 +0000 Subject: Re: udev - flag for preserving the ownership Message-Id: <40BF0566.6040705@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------enigFE11911BAE3F0A82EE1F09AC" List-Id: References: <40BCA49D.2000007@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <40BCA49D.2000007@redhat.com> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigFE11911BAE3F0A82EE1F09AC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. --------------enigFE11911BAE3F0A82EE1F09AC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAvwVpt7dFwsVXVUIRAiaJAJ9apSugIEWUtx/PVbA4JxCjbgIRfgCfRJe5 BCBOvFlCV0/IlrqAEF+qdW8= =C2uZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigFE11911BAE3F0A82EE1F09AC-- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 _______________________________________________ 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