Re: [RFC] /sbin/hotplug multiplexor

From: Greg KH (greg@kroah.com)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 16:34:05 EST


On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 02:24:48PM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>
> Personally, this is one reason why I'd much rather see a daemon-based model
> where each interested daemon can "subscribe" to the messages it is
> interested in. It's very possible (and likely, i.e. udev) that the steps
> involved for the daemon to respond to the hotplug event are so lightweight
> that creating a subprocess to handle them would be very wasteful.

One of the hotplug programs will create a D-BUS message that anyone can
subscribe to. But I don't want to add that to one of the existing
hotplug programs, as it's a separate task. That's one reason for the
proposed change.

thanks,

greg k-h
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