Messages in this thread | | | From | Tim Hockin <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:19:22 -0700 (PDT) |
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> > A much better solution could be had by select()ing on a filehandle > > indicating when a new hotswap event is ready to be processed. No races, > > no security issues, no performance issues. > > I must say that I've always felt this to be a better approach than the > /sbin/hotplug callout.
I've always liked this approach, too - if you look at acpid, it is designed to be gereically useful for this model of kernel->userland notification.
With minor mods, it could become 'eventd' and handle ACPI, hotplug, netlink, and any other style kernel->user notice.
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