Re: udev change event

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On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 23:50 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 21:48, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Marco d'Itri (md@xxxxxxxx) said:
> >> On Jul 03, Harald Hoyer <harald@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> > With recent changes, udev processes "change" events for removable devices
> >> > and resets the permissions, if it has changed since creation. Is this
> >> > intended? Or do we just want a new vol_id symlink?
> >> I think this is intended: manually changing the permissions of dynamic
> >> devices is not supposed to work.
> >
> > ....? How do you handle ACLs for local users, then?
> 
> Re-apply them, with the same logic that did it in the first place?

Racy. The ACL's are applied long after udev stopped processing rules.
Better to fix udev to only apply permissions on "add" events.

      David


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