On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 13:32 +0200, Florian Zumbiehl wrote: > > reading some of the source of udev, I noticed what I would suspect to be a > [...] > > could someone possibly explain to me why there is that special codepath > for cases where the device node does already exist, so I can write a > patch that's not gonna break other functionality? > For example, when using devtmpfs; in which case the device nodes already exist. Or when updating devices like /dev/null which are created before udevd is started by the init script when not using devtmpfs. Or when racing with devmapper which creates /dev/mapper/foo devices at basically the same time as udev. Scott -- Scott James Remnant scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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