Re: [gpsd-dev] Another release seems called for

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Eric!

On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 14:09:21 -0400
"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Gary E. Miller <address@hidden>:
> > I'd like to add a configure option to allow forcing the group 
> > gpsd uses after dropping priviledges, then I could completely
> > sidestep udev which is non-portable.
> 
> Already exists.  gpsd_group - it defaults to "dialout", which is
> pretty much standard on Linux.  The uucp group was very old-school
> Unix; I don't think I've seen it on a non-legacy system since the
> 1990s.

Gentoo and Slackware still use uucp.  Since it is configurable I'll
try to change the group.

> The interesting question is why dropping into the dialout group isn't
> sufficient to allow a gpsd instance to open devices after they replug.

Because its the wrong group.

> Whatever error we're looking at here is probably a distro packaging
> glitch rather than a bug in GPSD itself.

I'm compiling from source, so nothing to do with distro packaging.

RGDS
GARY
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