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

[Eric S. Raymond]

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.

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

Whatever error we're looking at here is probably a distro packaging glitch
rather than a bug in GPSD itself.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

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