On 01/28/2012 10:23:43 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: > Mounting filesystems is just not simple enough to do that in udev, > you > need a real service to do that properly. Udev rules are just not the > right tool for the job, and very likely never will be. It occurs to me that udev could provide an RUN-like key that would not only run but would also detach the new process, as a favor to long-running RUNed processes so that each does not have to code it's own detach. Regards, Karl <kop@xxxxxxxx> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein P.S. FYI. Based on this thread I have filed a bug against the Debian usbmount program, which uses udev to trigger mounting. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658028 -- 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