[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#444980: udev not restarted after exiting runlevel 1

[Marco d'Itri]

On Aug 30, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:

> I guess the design question that need to be decided, is if udev should
> be running in runlevel 1 or not, and that again depend on the
> understanding of what runlevel 1 should be.  In my head, runlevel 1
So far nobody provided a compelling argument about why it should not.

> should give the sysadmin a system without any daemons running, to be
> able to edit files and partitions without having any processes
> blocking the work.
The only files udev keeps open are on /dev, and it's almost impossible
to unmount it anyway. I am not aware of other daemons which should run
in single user mode.
Since without udev /dev will not stay in sync with reality I think it
is reasonable to believe that it is a fundamental system component which
should be active even in single user mode.
I also argue that it should not even be stopped, because then events may
be lost.

> I am not very fond of special casing for individual packages in the
> initscripts package, and very reluctant to add such code in
> init.d/killprocs.
I am also not very fond of adding complexity to my packages because the
maintainers of other packages are unwilling to properly fix bugs in
their own package, so we may have a problem here.

-- 
ciao,
Marco
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