On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:40:18PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 09:25 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Ok, but that way can be done in userspace, without the need for this > > char device, right? > > It might actually be nice to have a device file anyway since you can use > existing udev infrastructure to adjust permissions (e.g. chown it to the > netdev group) and add ACLs. This would allow running some software as an > unprivileged user instead of uid 0. But as the char nodes would not actually control access to anything, how would this help? Remember, these device nodes are "dummies" with nothing behind them (open() fails). thanks, greg k-h -- 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
