From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:28:05 +0000 Subject: Re: udev.rules.devfs + symlinks & a question 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 Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:13:27PM +0100, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:33:08PM +0100, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote: > > > what are the advantages/ disadvantages > > > to compile using klibc ? > > > > A very tiny static executable is created using klibc. That's necessary > > for early boot, and people who care about the size of things. > > > > hm > one more note > > udev.permissions seems to be tottaly ignored by udev > compiled against klibc ? > all devices are owned by root:root, > with libc udev i do have root:video, root:audio, .... See the man page for why: If udev was built using klibc or is used before the user database is accessible (e.g. initrd(4)), only numeric owner and group values may be used. greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id78&alloc_id371&op=click _______________________________________________ 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