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msoltyspl

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From: Poland

Registered: 2007-07-09

Posts: 11

Udev script questions

Hello

In archlinux's start_udev script, there's one thing that keeps me wondering why it present there - trigger_builtin_events, that handles ttyS in a bit different way. I couldn't find any rationale behind this (besides "real fast" comment ), and 2 other distros I'm checking out at the moment - gentoo and CRUX - have nothing analogous to that, and rely only on udevtrigger. LFS had something similar (and more general), but it got replaced by a single call to udevtrigger as well (failed uevents are still retried with looped echo "add" there).

The other question - why echo with four 0s instead of just echo "" >/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug ?

Well, hope my questions make a little sense. I'm "moving" a bit from BSD world - mainly OpenBSD- and checking some of Linux distros. I've spent most of the time with gentoo, which seems very nice but also quite ... heavy, for lack of a better word. Archlinux (and CRUX) have been quite refreshing for a change