From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug#286040: please allow permissions.d to follow symlinks
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:45:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1103291141.14134.200.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041217083115.GA4050@wonderland.linux.it>
On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 14:38 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> [2004.12.17.1424 +0100]:
> > Why you guys always want to make things more complicated as
> > needed?
>
> You mean "less complicated"? Because we are Debian and therefore
> make sure that things just work the way they are supposed to, no
> more and no less. There is no point in changing symlink permissions.
> What a user wants to do instead is change the permissions of the
> device. So we should allow him/her to do so intuitively.
>
> Why bother having to use commands explicitly when there is already
> a framework to do exactly that? Even if the framework has to be
> extended, it's better to make use of it than to reinvent several
> other wheels.
Symlinks should not have any impact on the node. That's the concept,
that makes more sense to me than the proposed magic.
Kay
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-17 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-17 8:31 Bug#286040: please allow permissions.d to follow symlinks Marco d'Itri
2004-12-17 10:11 ` Stefan Schweizer
2004-12-17 10:48 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 13:24 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 13:38 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 13:40 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-12-17 13:45 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2004-12-17 13:47 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 13:49 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-12-17 13:56 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 13:58 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 14:13 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 14:19 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 14:20 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 14:35 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 14:36 ` Stefan Schweizer
2004-12-17 14:42 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 14:45 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 14:52 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 15:50 ` Greg KH
2004-12-17 16:14 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 16:45 ` Greg KH
2004-12-17 17:10 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 17:45 ` Stefan Schweizer
2004-12-17 18:33 ` Greg KH
2004-12-17 18:40 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 23:25 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 23:41 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-18 0:25 ` Lindsay Haisley
2004-12-18 0:53 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-18 1:18 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-18 3:04 ` Greg KH
2004-12-18 4:18 ` Lindsay Haisley
2004-12-18 4:21 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-18 9:48 ` Stefan Schweizer
2004-12-18 12:33 ` Tobias Klauser
2004-12-18 13:04 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-12-19 4:34 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-12-20 9:39 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-20 17:56 ` Lindsay Haisley
2004-12-20 18:04 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-20 19:05 ` Lindsay Haisley
2004-12-21 8:04 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-21 16:11 ` Lindsay Haisley
2004-12-21 16:31 ` Lindsay Haisley
2004-12-21 16:38 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-21 16:48 ` Tobias Klauser
2004-12-21 16:54 ` Greg KH
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