From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: martin f krafft Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:38:45 +0000 Subject: Re: Bug#286040: please allow permissions.d to follow symlinks Message-Id: <20041217133845.GA21601@cirrus.madduck.net> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi" List-Id: References: <20041217083115.GA4050@wonderland.linux.it> In-Reply-To: <20041217083115.GA4050@wonderland.linux.it> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable also sprach Kay Sievers [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. Or: why bother using cron when you could just as well write your own daemon to regularly spawn your process? Think UNIX, think modularity, think flexibility, think power: each tool for its own purpose, no more, no less. > Just specify the permissions in the rule itself like ide-devfs.sh > is doing it or use the name you want to use in the NAME key and > not in a SYMLINK and everything will work as expected. That is one possibility. However, I see some (albeit weak) arguments for using symlinks, as it does not degrade functionality but provides more information and more flexibility. After all, the kernel log will, e.g. reference /dev/sda1, and if that is not present, it may be confusing. Also, Having /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 in addition to /dev/flash makes more sense than having only /dev/sda and /dev/flash. --=20 .''`. martin f. krafft : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, user, and author `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system =20 Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBwuFlIgvIgzMMSnURAkJmAJ9jntc1Zo/Opb/KKAk4/ODhRG8ePACeOVR/ In9OcBleEVSsut453zutXXA= =EnCh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi-- ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ 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