Re: udev is too slow creating devices

From: Chris Friesen
Date: Wed Sep 15 2004 - 17:22:06 EST


Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

the kernel certainly knows when it's about time to fork an userspace
process to create the device, doesn't it? then just wait4 while the
process is running.

Last I checked, if using udevsend the process that gets forked is not the same process that actually creates the device node.

Chris
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