From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 00:04:37 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:59:48PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > You can store the default permissions in the database you use to store > the naming data. This solves the reboot problem, as long as you can > convince people to not modify the permissions on their own (well even if > they do, at shutdown, you can always validate that they are the same > before you clean up the node.) There is no reason this can't live on ext3. The permissions are always right. At device insertion, udev sees that the new device is 'disk0' and modifies /dev/disk0 to point to the new device (whatever number). Permissions are preserved. Joel -- "The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak." - author Robert A. Heinlein on censorship Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle Corporation E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.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