On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 13:14 +0200, Seewer Philippe wrote: > The manpage for udevadm (version 141) says about the timeout for settle > and --timeout: > > [quote] > udevadm settle [options] > Watches the udev event queue, and exits if all > current events are handled. > > --timeout=seconds > Maximum number of seconds to wait for the event > queue to become empty. The default value is 180 > seconds. A value of 0 will check if the queue > is empty and always return immediately. > [/quote] > > > Am I reading this correctly if I assume that udevadm has to wait for an > event to be "handled" regardless of the timeout value? > > Example: dhclient has a default of 60 seconds to try to get an ip > address until it fails. udevadm settle waits for the whole 60 seconds to > pass regardless of the timeout parameter. > > Is this behaviour as intended? The timeout is the maximum to wait: $ echo 'RUN+="/bin/sleep 300"' > /etc/udev/rules.d/00.rules $ echo add > /sys/class/mem/zero/uevent $ time udevadm settle --timeout=3 udevadm settle - timeout of 3 seconds reached, the event queue contains: /sys/devices/virtual/mem/zero (1796) Not sure, udev 141 maybe had a bug here. Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
