From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mkdir of /etc/.udev/rules.d/
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:28:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091104142825.GA24264@bongo.bofh.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091103152119.GA14319@bongo.bofh.it>
On Nov 04, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> > 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?
> No specific reason, I remember. It could move into the daemon, before
> the inotify watch.
Why create it at all?
(I suspect that this was done to suppress a warning about the missing
directory, but then I'd rather do it properly with a flag...)
--
ciao,
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-04 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-03 15:21 mkdir of /etc/.udev/rules.d/ Marco d'Itri
2009-11-04 10:58 ` Kay Sievers
2009-11-04 14:28 ` Marco d'Itri [this message]
2009-11-04 14:44 ` Kay Sievers
2009-11-04 16:09 ` Kay Sievers
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