On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote: > The problem of course is that the tts daemon needs to watch this too > and not choke if the device access to that soft_synth device goes > away. Ok, so I could modify both espeakup and speechd-up to use udev and deal with what happens with /dev/soft_synth rights go away. I can do that. > This has little to do with the kernel. udev-acl is a userspace code > living in udev's tree (see above). Got it. Thanks Lennart for the tutorial... I'm gonna take back all the things I've said about you (hands you a candy bar)... you've... you've earned it :-) (In case you're not American, that's a Ghost Buster reference). Bill