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From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:54:22 +0000
Subject: Re: udev queue error
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Hello,

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 01:55:01PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Maybe we can find a clean way to disable the event generation during
> the time udev runs the event handler? We do a similar thing with
> inotify watches too, so that udev does not generate events it has
> caused itself during the event run.

Maybe we can tag events which were generated during open(2) with the
pid of the opener so that udev can reliably filter them?  I think it
would be nice if we can somehow make it uni-directional (ie. no extra
information from userland to kernel during open).

Thanks.

-- 
tejun