[arch-general] udev-139 and file permissions of /dev/net/tun

[Allan McRae]

Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Aaron Griffin schrieb:
>> tun and a few other devices (loopX) are created statically in
>> /lib/udev/devices/ and then placed on top of /dev/ when udev starts
>> up. You can modify the initial permissions of these devices there
>
> How does pacman handle this on updates? Does it prefer the mode of the 
> on-disk file or revert it to the package value?
>

Files are removed then the new one extracted, so you should end up with 
the package permissions.  Shared directories are more interesting... 
(you will get a warning about permission differences).

Allan