From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:21:19 +0000 Subject: mkdir of /etc/.udev/rules.d/ Message-Id: <20091103152119.GA14319@bongo.bofh.it> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org udev_rules_new() in udev/udev-rules.c unconditionally creates the directory. This is a problem because the function is called also by e.g. udevadm test, and creating /dev/.udev/ when it does not exist is an unacceptable side effect which will break everything else that checks for its existence to know if udev is running. Why is this needed? -- ciao, Marco