Re: [RFC] /sbin/hotplug multiplexor

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 02:24:48PM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> 
> Personally, this is one reason why I'd much rather see a daemon-based model 
> where each interested daemon can "subscribe" to the messages it is 
> interested in. It's very possible (and likely, i.e. udev) that the steps 
> involved for the daemon to respond to the hotplug event are so lightweight 
> that creating a subprocess to handle them would be very wasteful.

One of the hotplug programs will create a D-BUS message that anyone can
subscribe to.  But I don't want to add that to one of the existing
hotplug programs, as it's a separate task.  That's one reason for the
proposed change.

thanks,

greg k-h