Re: [PATCH] udev enhancements to use kernel event queue

Steven Dake
2003-06-19T23:32:32Z

Werner Almesberger wrote:

>Linus Torvalds wrote:
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>>[ Event demons ] encourage doing everything in one program,
>>keeping state in private memory, depending on ordering, and just
>>generally do bad things.
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>Well, the ordering bit is the hairy part. As long as it doesn't
>matter if an event gets lost every once in a while, and in which
>order they get processed, things are fine as they are.
>
>But then it scares me to see people start to try to design some
>general serialization mechanism on top of /sbin/hotplug
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>
A serialization methodology can be built on /sbin/hotplug, but it has
all of the problems that Linus previously talked about for a kernel
event queue. The difference is that the problem is moved to userland.

>- Werner
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>

-steve