Package: udev Version: 0.088-2 Severity: normal What happens if several rules match an event? The man page seems to say they will all apply. For example, the last paragraph of the DESCRIPTION section refers to "Rules [plural] that match". Some of the options refer to cutting off rules application, implying that ordinarily they proceed.
This does not seem to be the behavior I'm getting. I put this rule ACTION="add", SUBSYSTEM="net", RUN+="/sbin/nameif" before the usual hotplug.rules. The ethernet device was not up at the end of this, suggesting that the following rule (invoking net.agent) never ran. I changed the rule to ACTION="add", SUBSYSTEM="net", RUN+="/sbin/nameif", RUN+="/bin/sh -c '/lib/udev/net.agent &'" and ran udevtrigger. This time it worked. So either only the first rule is processed, or this is one of those other networking bugs that have been reported where things fail on startup but work later. Other documentation on the internet indicates that udev stops as soon as the first match is found, so maybe this is the actual and intended behavior. If so, it would be good for the man page to make that clear. I also found the documentation on OPTIONS a little hard to follow. I guess the intent is, e.g., OPTIONS=last_rule to apply one of these options. I wasn't clear that OPTIONS was a key. Perhaps an example would help, if you think others might be as dense :) This was using a 2.6.15 kernel (I'm sending this from a different system than the one I ran udev on). -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.27advncdfs Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
