temporarily disabling udev

[md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)]

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I need to patch udev to be sure that it will not modify /dev if
udevstart has been not been run (e.g. because root disabled the
init script, or it failed for some reason).
Would this work?

diff -ruNp udev-048.orig/udev.c udev-048/udev.c
--- udev-048.orig/udev.c	2004-12-08 20:43:16.000000000 +0100
+++ udev-048/udev.c	2004-12-19 15:09:51.000000000 +0100
@@ -83,6 +83,15 @@ exit:
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/* return true if the udev database exists */
+static int udev_active(void) {
+	struct stat stats;
+
+	if (stat (udev_db_path, &stats) == 0)
+		return 1;
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static void asmlinkage sig_handler(int signum)
 {
 	switch (signum) {
@@ -161,6 +170,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[], char *e
 	if (udev_log)
 		setenv("UDEV_LOG", "1", 1);
 
+	if (!udev_active())
+		goto hotplug;
+
 	if ((strncmp(devpath, "/block/", 7) == 0) || (strncmp(devpath, "/class/", 7) == 0)) {
 		if (strcmp(action, "add") == 0) {
 			/* wait for sysfs and possibly add node */


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