* Alexander Leidinger <alexan...@leidinger.net> wrote: > So you want that either > - a daemon running as root is written which listens to user > requests to set the backlight via sysctl > or > - a SUID root program is written that sets the backlight > via sysctl > instead of > - a character device with appropriate filesystem permissions > which allows to not go the SUID root or daemon running as > root way > ?
Yes. The primary reason is that it is more consistent with the rest of the operating system. powerd also uses sysctl's instead of a character device, for example. The ideal solution would be to integrate it into vidcontrol, calling some kind of ioctl on the TTY/consolectl, but syscons is too brainless to know anything about hardware specific features. -- Ed Schouten <e...@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/
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