Re: udev and dbus

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 19:49, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:52:59PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > >  1. Remove dbus support from udev and make udev call /sbin/hotplug with
> > >     a single positional parameter, 'udev', and the environment variables
> > >     DEVPATH pointing to the appropriate directory in sysfs, ACTION
> > >     assuming 'add' respectively 'remove' and DEVICE_FILE pointing to
> > >     the created / removed special device file.
> > 
> > How will you know what file is created?
> > 
> 
> udev forks, creates a minimal environment, sets ACTION, DEVPATH and
> DEVICE_FILE (surely udev will know what to put in DEVICE_FILE since
> it created / removed the file, yes?) and then exec's /sbin/hotplug
> (or whatever the /proc/... file designates as the hotplug helper)
> with a single parameter udev.

This sounds like a nice loop :)

Kay



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