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From: "Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:24:05 +0000
Subject: Re: Mounting only inserted disks
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On 01/28/2012 10:23:43 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:

> Mounting filesystems is just not simple enough to do that in udev, 
> you
> need a real service to do that properly. Udev rules are just not the
> right tool for the job, and very likely never will be.

It occurs to me that udev could provide an RUN-like key that
would not only run but would also detach the new process,
as a favor to long-running RUNed processes so that
each does not have to code it's own detach.

Regards,

Karl <kop@meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                 -- Robert A. Heinlein

P.S. FYI.  Based on this thread I have filed a bug
against the Debian usbmount program, which uses
udev to trigger mounting.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?buge8028