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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Cc: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	jeremy@goop.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing Lists <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: module-init-tools/udev and module auto-loading
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 14:43:01 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040204040344.CD3182C25A@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Feb 2004 02:04:25 -0000." <20040204020425.GA21151@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

In message <20040204020425.GA21151@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> you write:
> <shrug> If you want to mount autofs on /dev, more power to you.  However,
> it got to be explicit "I mount <this> at /dev" - _anything_ based on
> "if pathname starts with /dev, it's special" is FUBAR.

Having a process say "tell me when something non-existent under this
dir gets accessed" seems to be what is desired.  And (from my
v. limited understanding) autofs comes close already, yes?

That at least gives Martin somewhere to start...
Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-04  4:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-01 22:31 module-init-tools/udev and module auto-loading Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-02  0:10 ` Rusty Russell
2004-02-02 19:02   ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-03  0:55     ` Rusty Russell
2004-02-03  4:55       ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-03 17:48       ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-03 19:33         ` viro
2004-02-03 20:47           ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-03 20:53             ` viro
2004-02-03 21:34               ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-04  1:22         ` Rusty Russell
2004-02-04  2:04           ` viro
2004-02-04  3:43             ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2004-02-02  5:21 ` Greg KH
2004-02-02 18:12   ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-02 19:14     ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-02 19:13   ` Martin Schlemmer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-02  7:20 "Andrey Borzenkov" 
2004-02-02  7:34 ` Greg KH
2004-02-03 15:00 "Andrey Borzenkov" 

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