Re: [gpsd-dev] Time Service HOWTO in nearly final form; please review

[Beat Bolli]

On 26.10.13 14:23, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Beat Bolli <address@hidden>:
>> The section that explains the differences between root vs. non-root
>> operation and devices on the command line vs. hotplug needs to be
>> adjusted now that the root privileges are dropped after setting up the
>> SHM segments and raising the PPS thread priority (commit
>> 247c5825172137f337a79a1ff2f73b4af2899f66).
> 
> I'm not seeing how, sorry.  Gary moved the thread interlock to avoid a 
> race condition, and this does mean time_pps_create() will always be
> called with root permissions.  But it appears to me that this just
> removes a bug that prevented the code from behaving as documented.

But would this not imply that the hot-plugged GPS would also have access
to the unit 0 and 1 SHM regions?

Beat
-- 
mail: echo '<address@hidden>' | tr -d '[A-S]'
pgp: 0x506A903A; 49D5 794A EA77 F907 764F  D89E 304B 93CF 506A 903A
gsm: 4.7.7.6.0.7.7.9.7.1.4.e164.arpa
icbm: 47.0452 N, 7.2715 E

"It takes love over gold, and mind over matter" -- Dire Straits

signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature