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From: Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@diku.dk>
Subject: Re: /sbin/hotplug exec'd lots of times during boot
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:29:35 -0700
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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