Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:09:33 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release |
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Steven Dake <sdake@mvista.com> wrote: > > 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.
Apart from the performance issue, it means that the kernel can buffer the "insertion" events which happen at boot-time discovery until the userspace handler attaches itself.
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