On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 6:36 AM, MERIGHI Marcus <mcmer-open...@tor.at> wrote:
> The behaviour change in hotplug(4)/hotplugd(8) after your commit makes
> it more ``hot plug'', actually. What bothers me (but not many others,
> obviously) is the fact that the behaviour change is undocumented. Four
> places come to my mind:
> 1) a comment in hotplug.c with appropriate commit message.
> 2) hotplug(4) man page, ``When a device attaches or detaches, the
>   corresponding event is queued'' should (suggestion) read ``Once the
>   device is opened by userland, when a device attaches or detaches, the
>   corresponding event is queued.'' (I am not a native speaker, so
>   please correct me!)
> 3) hotplugd(8) man page, make
>   ``The hotplugd daemon monitors the hotplug(4) pseudo-device, acting on
>   signaled events by executing the scripts in the /etc/hotplug
>   directory.'' read
>   ``The hotplugd daemon opens the hotplug(4) pseudo-device and thus
>   enables event signaling. It then monitors the device, acting on
>   signaled events by executing the scripts in the /etc/hotplug
>   directory.''
> 4) http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html
>
> I'd gladly supply patches for any of these.

That sounds good.  I was aware of the change, but didn't think anybody
would notice. :)

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