Managing ACL's on device nodes

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 13:52 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Invoking pam_console from udev for a new device, is the same async
> > model, just with less code involved.
> 
> Device add was asynchronous before, but setting the perms on login
> was synchronous.

Before it was 

 kernel -> udev -> pam_console

This proposal is

 kernel -> udev -> hald -> hal-add-acl

I don't see why this is suddenly async?

     David