Hi, On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 05:29:28PM +1000, Robert Stanford wrote: > Is it possible to compile sane-backends so it doesnt check symlink > permissions with the devfs. > > i.e. I believe so it doesnt do an lstat.
Could you provide some more details about what you want to achieve? As far as I know, no backend uses (l)stat for checking permissions. Usually the device files are just opened and an error message is printed only if the system doesn't allow access. Bye, Henning
