Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron-office.nl)
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 23:39:07 +0000 (UTC)

In article <20030411190717.GH1821@kroah.com>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>I agree too. Having /sbin/hotplug send events to a pipe where a daemon
>can get them from makes a lot of sense. It will handle most of the
>synchronization and spawning a zillion tasks problems.

Why not serialize /sbin/hotplug at the kernel level. Queue hotplug
events and only allow one /sbin/hotplug to run at the same time.

Mike.

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