On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 16:21, Marco d'Itri <md@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > udev_rules_new() in udev/udev-rules.c unconditionally creates the > directory. > This is a problem because the function is called also by e.g. udevadm > test, and creating /dev/.udev/ when it does not exist is an unacceptable > side effect which will break everything else that checks for its > existence to know if udev is running. > Why is this needed? No specific reason, I remember. It could move into the daemon, before the inotify watch. 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
