From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kay Sievers" Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:38:03 +0000 Subject: Re: udev not running new rules Message-Id: <3ae72650708130438y1f3efb13n1eedcdc0c4ec07b8@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: References: <1186927115.3225.10.camel@tigger> In-Reply-To: <1186927115.3225.10.camel@tigger> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On 8/13/07, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Minor quibble: > > Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > > All rules are read into memory when udev loads at boot time then > > never again. > > Unless your system has support for inotify. Then udevd uses inotify to > wait for a rules-file to change, and reloads it. Or at least, that's > what it used to do, and I doubt that something as useful as that would > have gotten removed. Sure, that still works, rules are watched for changes. But only for events which are not already running, only new events will see the new rules. If you write out a new rule/file, the events that are currently running will not include the new rules. Kay ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel