Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 004 release

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:24:24AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 01:50:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:34:04PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > 
> > > I was looking how to set permissions on the created node.
> > > What is the future of struct device_attr?
> > > Same values are in struct udevice now?
> > 
> > device_attr will go away.  I was leaving the namedev.c file alone when I
> > did the udevice cleanups so that merging with Dan's changes would be
> > easier.  Now I'm about to go clean that up.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> attached is a patch for udev-add.c to set file permissions.
> The problem is that the resolving of owner/group name to its numeric id
> needs shared libc libs. What does this mean for klibc?

I've just applied a patch to the bk tree that adds this kind of support
to udev, but works with glibc.  If building with klibc, you can not use
string group name and user names.  It's a comprimise, and something the
Debian people have been wanting.

Thanks to Marco d'Itri for the patch.

greg k-h


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