Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:35:07 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release |
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 04:23:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > But how many events to we buffer? > > On a large machine: 856,432.
Heh.
> > When do we start to throw them away? > > Fun policy decisions that we don't have to worry about in the current > > scheme. > > The current scheme will run out of processes, kernel stacks, etc before a > message scheme would. > > > Also, what's the format of the kernel->user interface. > > Exactly the same as at present, with /sbin/hotplug chopped off. So you can > run the daemon: > > while read x > do > /sbin/hotplug $x > done < /dev/hotplug_event_pipe > > for compatibility with existing scripts.
But the current interface is a single argument, and whole lot of variable length environment variables that may or may not be set, depending on the argument. That would be a mess to parse from a single stream (not undoable, but painful).
thanks,
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