From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 07:46:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 07:46:44 -0500 Received: from mailout10.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.21]:16545 "EHLO mailout10.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 07:46:43 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Oliver Neukum To: Sean Neakums , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: devfs Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:51:08 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20021112093259.3d770f6e.spyro@f2s.com> <20021112094949.GE17478@higherplane.net> <6uadkf9kdt.fsf@zork.zork.net> In-Reply-To: <6uadkf9kdt.fsf@zork.zork.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200211121351.08328.oliver@neukum.name> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Actually, here's a question: are /sbin/hotplug upcalls serialized in > some fashion? I'd hate to online a thousand devices in my disk array > and have the machine forkbomb itself. Nope, no serialisation. You don't have any guarantee even that addition will be delivered before removal. Regards Oliver