Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 2003 14:52:21 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] /sbin/hotplug multiplexor |
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:43:17PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > Well, for a little elegance you might introduce subdirectories for each > > > type of hotplug event and use only them. > > > > No, that's for the individual scripts/programs to decide. For example, > > that's what the current hotplug scripts do, but that's not at all what > > the udev program wants to do. > > So have them put a symlink into each subdirectory. This is the way it's > done for init since times immemorial.
But the number of different "types" keeps growing. For some programs (like udev) they really don't care about the type, and if you add a new type, it still works just fine. Other programs do care about the type, so they can look at it and make a judgement based on it.
thanks,
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