On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 08:05:35PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 07:16:00PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > That is because udev is slower so the window of the race condition > > gets increased many many times. Without udev you don't have to wait > > for the mknod call to complete. > > I think you got the speed comparison wrong: udev does the mknod() from a > C program running as a daemon, while hotplug means forking a new shell > for every event. That should be several magnitudes slower.
The difference being that hotplug doesn't even *attempt* to do an mknod() in its default configuration. Udev does do so, for everything. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
