[PD] [hid] 0.6 released

Peter Plessas plessas at sbox.tugraz.at
Wed Jun 15 16:27:15 CEST 2005


Hi Frank/List,

Well looks like it's my devfs that resets the permission of the 
/dev/input tree...
So i'll change it manually every time until i found sth. better!

(or is there any hint from some devfs-experieced people?)

thanks, Peter

Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo Peter,
> Peter Plessas hat gesagt: // Peter Plessas wrote:
> 
> 
>>don't know if this has been discussed already (found nothing in the 
>>archives), but the devices of /dev/input/eventN are always set to 
>>root:root (owner:group), so for using it i have to change it manually 
>>every time to f.e. root:audio to access it.
> 
> 
> That's strange: They don't reset permissions here. I suspect you are
> using some automatically generated /dev-filesystem then, like udev.
> I'm still using "hard" devices. But also udev should be able to give
> devices certain permissinons. I think, it's supposed to save the last
> permissions on reboot, but maybe you are running something else than
> udev?
> 
> Ciao




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