On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 04:36, Marco d'Itri<md@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > inotify_add_watch may fail in udev_watch_begin, and then a link with > name -1 is created. > I do not know why, but it happened once on my system: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Aug 4 11:27 -1 -> /devices/virtual/block/ram8 > > Then udev would log an error every time it was restarted: > > Aug 30 04:17:20 bongo udevd[12451]: unable to move watches dir '/dev/.udev/watch', old watches will not be restored: Directory not empty I changed it to give up, and not to create the link when the add fails. Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
