Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:42:40 -0700 | From | Steven Dake <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] udev enhancements to use kernel event queue |
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Werner Almesberger wrote:
>Linus Torvalds wrote: > > >>[ Event demons ] encourage doing everything in one program, >>keeping state in private memory, depending on ordering, and just >>generally do bad things. >> >> > >Well, the ordering bit is the hairy part. As long as it doesn't >matter if an event gets lost every once in a while, and in which >order they get processed, things are fine as they are. > >But then it scares me to see people start to try to design some >general serialization mechanism on top of /sbin/hotplug > > A serialization methodology can be built on /sbin/hotplug, but it has all of the problems that Linus previously talked about for a kernel event queue. The difference is that the problem is moved to userland.
>- Werner > >
-steve
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