From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262134AbTDKXRT (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:17:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262196AbTDKXQg (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:16:36 -0400 Received: from fw-az.mvista.com ([65.200.49.158]:41978 "EHLO zipcode.az.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262134AbTDKXPV (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:15:21 -0400 Message-ID: <3E974F68.5020106@mvista.com> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:27:36 -0700 From: Steven Dake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: David Lang , "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" , "'Jeremy Jackson'" , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" , "'linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net'" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release References: <20030411205948.GV1821@kroah.com> <3E974299.3030701@mvista.com> <20030411225137.GB3786@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20030411225137.GB3786@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: >On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 03:32:57PM -0700, Steven Dake wrote: > > >>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. >> >> > >That would be cool. But I think we need to add dnotify support to sysfs >first :) > 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? > >thanks, > >greg k-h > > > > >