Re: Flames over -- Re: Which is simpler?

[Oliver Neukum]

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
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