Hi, reading some of the source of udev, I noticed what I would suspect to be a race condition with security implications, namely that device nodes are first mknod()/chmod()ed with the permission mask that they're supposed to have at the end, but potentially at this point applying to the wrong owner and group, before then being chown()ed to the correct owner and group. Now, I don't understand why this preservation-stuff (existing device nodes don't get replaced, but instead their permissions get modified) is being done, which is why I don't have any patch - but if you help me with that a bit, maybe I would make up some fix ;-) Florian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
