On Nov 04, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@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. Why create it at all? (I suspect that this was done to suppress a warning about the missing directory, but then I'd rather do it properly with a flag...) -- ciao, Marco -- 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
