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SubjectRe: udev is too slow creating devices


Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
>
> Implementation of various logical primitives. E.g., I use GPRS and want
> to start pppd during the boot process (i.e., an always-on link), but
> after the following things:
>
> 1) /dev/ttyS0 has been created
> 2) /dev/ppp has been created
> 3) modules for line disciplines and PPP compression have been preloaded
> (e.g. by grepping modules.alias for tty-ldisc and ppp-compress) and are
> ready for use by pppd
> 4) firewall rules have been applied
>
> How to "AND" these things together in a /etc/dev.d scriptlet?
and

5) /tmp is read-write
6) /var is mounted
7) log daemon is already running

but I think they can implemented with a waiting queue or other
user-space implementation.
Hmm wait, we will miss the event between udev loaded and
/var mounted and dev.d started!

ciao
cate

PS: I hope this discussion will start project of re-thinking the
boot/init.d method.

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