On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Krosh Ivanov <krosh.ivan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I want to use udev to detect a storage usb disk when it is plugged.
> Since the version of udev here is v120, it is need to use sockets to
> receive messages with data about events, such as it is used in
> udevmonitor.c. However, bind function returns an error message ("bind
> failed: Address already in use") because it is used bind again in
> another process (udevd uses it first). Is there another way to get the
> events from udev?
libudev?
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/libudev/
I guess it's probably not available on that old udev. You could use
libhal on that system, or you could add a rule to create an AF_LOCAL
socket like was done for hal and udevmonitor:
RUN+="socket:@/your/name/here"
--
Dan
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