On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:52:10PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:24:24AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > 
> > attached is a patch for udev-add.c to set file permissions.
> 
> Nice.
> 
> > The problem is that the resolving of owner/group name to its numeric id
> > needs shared libc libs. What does this mean for klibc?
> 
> Hm, not good.  udev has to be able to be linked statically.  I just got
> the klibc build working properly, and it makes a world of difference in
> size compared to glibc.
> 
> Could we convert the permissions file to numbers at build time?  That
> way the /etc/* file parsing would not be needed.  Yeah, it's not the
> nicest solution.  Anyone know of any other way we can do this properly?

Hi,
here is the patch for ownership setting on the ceated device node,
supporting only numeric id's given in udev.permissions.
For now, it may be better than nothing.

o set ownership of device node
  for now, we only accept numeric id's in udev.permissions
  cause we are unable to resolve it with klibc and/or
  before real /etc is even mounted



and for the man page:

o present the tiny udev in bold font :)
o make CALLOUT example look less fictious


thanks,
Kay