On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:01:15AM -0500, John Thacker wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 03:50:21PM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote: > > I hadn't realized my processor wasn't able to count anymore. I'm not > > sure I want to upgrade to fc5 if it can't do basic arithmetic. Or > > testing whether symlink(2) returns -EEXIST in a loop. > > udev upstream deprecated the %e functionality and removed it from the > manpage (claiming that it had never really worked properly). I had > thought it was supposed to still work, but it doesn't. I had noticed already that the udev maintainers clearly didn't care about backwards compatibility, but I didn't think it was the case of fedora. > PAM in /etc/security/console.perms sets the console user to own the > CDROM devices on login. (Along with other devices, like the soundcard.) > We do not, in general, want to set the user who logs in as the owner > of all block devices, such as hard drives. Thus we want some way to > distinguish which block devices are CD-ROMs that works for PAM on > login. Reasonable indeed. Of course the udev people would say you should use hal to get the list of devices. OG. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
