[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] udev
Russell Coker
russell at coker.com.au
Sun Oct 9 15:03:36 UTC 2005
I've just been playing with udev version 0.070-3. It seems that it's start
script runs after /etc/init.d/mountvirtfs. This means that when it umount's
the /dev/pts and /dev/shm file systems it has to mount them again.
It seems that the best solution would be to have mountvirtfs split into two
parts, one mounts /proc and /sys, the other mounts /dev/pts, /dev/shm (and
anything else that might get added under /dev). This means that
under /etc/rcS.d we might have S02mountprocsys and S04mountptsshm so that
S03udev can be run between them.
Also the udev script is rather complex. It seems to me that a better option
might be to have the /etc/init.d/udev script call a udev setup script (maybe
named /sbin/setup_udev) and then start the udevd.
One of the reasons for not wanting complex init.d scripts is that for SE Linux
we don't want to give ultimate access to such scripts. The udev script does
many things such as creating directories and device nodes under /dev which we
normally want to restrict as much as possible.
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