Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 04:25:55PM -0700, Jason Riedy wrote:
> And Greg KH writes:
>  - 
>  - But how many events to we buffer?  When do we start to throw them away?
>  - Fun policy decisions that we don't have to worry about in the current
>  - scheme.
> 
> Last time I checked, there was a limit on the number of running
> processes.

Hm, where is that?

> What happens when the executable named in /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
> fails to spawn?  Looks like the events get dropped on the floor right
> now regardless of the reason why it failed to execve.

Yes they will, if this is worrysome, use the kernel devfs :)

I don't mean to be glib, but I don't think this is a real problem for
99% of the systems out there.  But more testing of the simple prototype
that I posted would help prove me wrong...

thanks,

greg k-h


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