Re: udev-139 and file permissions of /dev/net/tun

[Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Aaron Griffin schrieb:
> > tun and a few other devices (loopX) are created statically in
> > /lib/udev/devices/ and then placed on top of /dev/ when udev starts
> > up. You can modify the initial permissions of these devices there
>
> How does pacman handle this on updates? Does it prefer the mode of the 
> on-disk file or revert it to the package value?

Files are removed then the new one extracted, so you should end up with 
the package permissions.  Shared directories are more interesting... 
(you will get a warning about permission differences).

Allan