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From: Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@diku.dk>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: /sbin/hotplug exec'd lots of times during boot
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:29:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42555FEF.5050305@diku.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050407082005.GJ11199@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>

Chris Wright wrote:
> * Jacob Gorm Hansen (jacobg@diku.dk) wrote:
> 
>>I just added a printk to do_execve() in xenolinux0, and noticed that 
>>/sbin/hotplug is being exec'ed more than a hundred times during boot, 
>>and that this happens before /sbin/init is exec'ed.
> 
> 
> This sounds pretty normal for Linux.  Each kobject_add can generate a
> hotplug event, and execve("/sbin/init") happens quite late during bootup.

No wonder it is slow to boot then ;-) ... How can one be sure that the 
/sbin/hotplugs are no longer running when /sbin/init runs, i.e. that 
init has pid==1? Are there no forks allowed in /sbin/hotplug?

thanks,
Jacob

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-07 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-07  2:43 /sbin/hotplug exec'd lots of times during boot Jacob Gorm Hansen
2005-04-07  8:20 ` Chris Wright
2005-04-07 16:29   ` Jacob Gorm Hansen [this message]
2005-04-07 17:19     ` Chris Wright

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