Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release

Greg KH
2003-04-11T18:15:41Z

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