From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:12:45 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 08:02:41PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Greg KH wrote: > > > I'd like to finally announce the previously vapor-ware udev program that > > I've talked a lot about with a lot of people over the past months. The > > first, very rough cut is at: > > kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-0.1.tar.gz > > Is there a special reason why you call mknod? I was lazy and trying to get this to work :) > Otherwise you could simply do: > > syscall(SYS_mknod, name, S_IFBLK | mode, dev); Yes, I'll switch to this way soon, just have to make sure my version of dev stays the same size as the kernel's version... > > Yes, I know there's still a lot of work to do (serialization, symlinks, > > hooking hotplug so that others can also use it, etc.) but it's a first > > step :) > > To help serialization and perfomance issues, it might help to add a daemon > mode to hotplug. The kernel calls hotplug with a pipe from which it reads > the event data, after a certain timeout it can close the pipe and exit. Yes, this is probably what is going to happen soon. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.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