Re: udev /dev/net/tun bug

["Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>]

Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:05:41AM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> 
>>To reproduce:
>>
>>cd /etc/hotplug
>>modprobe tun
>>udevstart
>>
>>Result:
>>
>>The following synthetic "net" hotplug event is received:
> 
> No, it's a real event.

Why do I re-receive that when I re-run udevstart? AFAIK just re-running 
udevstart doesn't produce any real hotplug events.

>>DEVPATH=/class/misc/tun
>>UDEV_NO_SLEEP=1
>>ACTION­d
>>PWD=/etc/hotplug
>>DEVNAME=/dev/net/tun
>>SHLVL=2
>>INTERFACE=/dev/net/tun
>>_=/usr/bin/env
>>=======
>>
>>This event is bogus, because there is really no interface, but a 
>>character device /dev/net/tun is involved.
> 
> Exactly, that's why this event is important.  Without it, udev would not
> be able to create the character device.
> 
> What is the issue you are having with this?

Yes, this is exactly the event due to which udev creates the 
/dev/net/tun character device :) However, it also gets dispatched to 
/etc/hotplug/net.agent for some reason.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov


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