From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262190AbTDKWoT (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:44:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262024AbTDKWm5 (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:42:57 -0400 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.101]:48021 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262000AbTDKWmu (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:42:50 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:51:37 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Steven Dake Cc: David Lang , "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" , "'Jeremy Jackson'" , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" , "'linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net'" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release Message-ID: <20030411225137.GB3786@kroah.com> References: <20030411205948.GV1821@kroah.com> <3E974299.3030701@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E974299.3030701@mvista.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 03:32:57PM -0700, Steven Dake wrote: > > I've been thinking of how to solve this particular problem, and believe > you could use dnotify in a daemon to track permission and ownership > changes and store them in a backing database. In fact, we do something > similiar to this today. This allows the user to use any type of > application for changing permissions/owners, even syscalls directly > without having to go "through" any sort of tracking database. That would be cool. But I think we need to add dnotify support to sysfs first :) thanks, greg k-h