>> mdev could also be patched to be run as a "mdevd" daemon listening >> to the netlink. > Do you know that such a patch actually exists? This would also solve the > hotplug race problem.
As I said in my previous post, the /etc/mdev.conf parsing speed issue cannot be solved so easily. It would be easy to provide a mini "devd" daemon, though, that reads the netlink and spawns helper processes such as mdev *one by one* (unlike the hotplug mechanism), to solve the race problem. This can be done independently from mdev; I'll probably write such a program soon. Creating a huge database of actions to perform on every possible event is still the biggest obstacle in replacing udev. -- Laurent _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
