Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:57:38 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > A heck of a lot of things can trigger an /sbin/hotplug run. It could well > be that Andrew's driver didn't want to run hotplug at all, but the kernel > did it anwyay. But as soon as the script appeared at /sbin/hotplug, and it > happened to use foo|bar: boom.
In fact, <many> things run /sbin/hotplug but don't necessarily need to :/
I think bcrl used a counter one time, and saw over 1000 /sbin/hotplug executions during a single boot.
Jeff
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