Re: [gpsd-users] SHM number changing on reconnect

[Zach LaCelle]

I'll get to this as soon as possible...sorry for the delay! I'll try enabling hotplug and see what happens.

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018, 3:34 PM Gary E. Miller <address@hidden> wrote:

Yo Martin!

On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 09:09:44 +0200
Martin Burnicki <address@hidden> wrote:

> Just an idea: According to the docs at
> http://doc.ntp.org/current-stable/drivers/driver28.html

Just remember, gpsd is NTP Classic compliant, but their doc is
not controlling on gpsd.

> "The shared memory-segment is created with owner-only access by
> default, unless otherwise requested by the mode word for units ≥2.
> Units 0 and 1 are always created with owner-only access for backward
> compatibility."
>
> So maybe this depends on whether a program runs as root or a different
> user, if it has dropped root privileges, or not, etc.

Yes, most certainly.  gpsd has to be root to get to SHM(0) and SHM(1).

Still unexplained is how this guy's gpsd is doing any hotplug
at all the way he has it configured without hot plug.

RGDS
GARY
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