Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 015 release

Martin Schlemmer
2004-01-31T17:57:02Z

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On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 05:17, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:55:29PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 06:52:05PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 23:50, Greg KH wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there a known issue that the daemon do not spawn?
> >
> > Hm, I don't know. This code is under major flux right now...
>
> Hi Martin,
> sorry, the code in the tree doesn't work.
> I decided to try pthreads, cause I gave up with the I/O multiplexing,
> forking and earning SIGCHLDS for manipulating the global lists.
>
> The multithreaded udevd takes multiple events at the same time on a unix
> domain socket, sorts it in a linked list and handles the timeouts if
> events are missing.
> It executes our current udev in the background and delays the execution
> for events with the same DEVPATH. So we serialize the events only for
> different devices.
>
> I've posted the latest patch to the list a few minutes ago.
> If you like, I'm happy to hear from your testing :)
>
> If we decide not to stay with the threads model, cause klibc doesn't
> support it now and ..., we at least have a working model to implement
> in a different way.
>

Thanks - I wanted to have a go at it, but after not working, wanted to
check if it might be my setup, or known issue ... I will see if I can
get time to test your latest patch - anything specific you need testing
of ?

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Martin Schlemmer

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