Am Sonntag, 19. Februar 2006 21:02 schrieb Andrew Morton: > For a), the current kernel behaviour is what we want - make the thing > appear at a new place in the namespace and in the hierarchy. Then > userspace can do whatever needs to be done to identify the device, and > apply some sort of policy decision to the result. How? If you have a running user space the connection to the open files is already severed, as any access in that time window must fail. For the rest we have udev. Oliver