From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SpqtB-00067L-M5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:11:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44C49E05FA; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:11:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3816E0521 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:10:22 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgwKAG6Zu0/O+LHJ/2dsb2JhbABEsnYDgRiBCIIVAQEEAScTHCgLCzQSFCU3G4duBboJiwhagUSCPGIDjT6HXIVfiDqBWIMF X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="193317173" Received: from 206-248-177-201.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([206.248.177.201]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 13 Jul 2012 21:10:21 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:10:16 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:10:16 -0400 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev Message-ID: <20120714011016.GA6930@waltdnes.org> References: <20120712034036.GA2439@waltdnes.org> <4FFED31D.9010505@gentoo.org> <20120712200741.GB3723@waltdnes.org> <20120712222931.GA3044@linux1> <20120713200449.GA6292@waltdnes.org> <50008143.3050708@gentoo.org> <20120714001343.GA6879@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 119e0f80-4614-46fb-8f37-755ba033461f X-Archives-Hash: 4b428339a0c1a64d6c18aaec9ff2a96a On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 08:40:20PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote > I'll venture a guess the solution will be to create a shim daemon > which turns around and launches udev. A quicker-and-dirtier solution would be to create a shim daemon that runs under the the name "udev", and passes all calls to /sbin/mdev. -- Walter Dnes