Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release

Steven Dake
2003-04-11T23:17:19Z

Greg KH wrote:

>On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 03:32:57PM -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
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>>I've been thinking of how to solve this particular problem, and believe
>>you could use dnotify in a daemon to track permission and ownership
>>changes and store them in a backing database. In fact, we do something
>>similiar to this today. This allows the user to use any type of
>>application for changing permissions/owners, even syscalls directly
>>without having to go "through" any sort of tracking database.
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>That would be cool. But I think we need to add dnotify support to sysfs
>first :)
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Hmm, I thought you were creating a tmpfs in /dev. I think that
particular case would allow dnotify to tell you when permissions and
owners changed?

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>thanks,
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>greg k-h
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