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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:17:47 +0200
From: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org>
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To: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>
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Subject: Re: udev is too slow creating devices
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Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
 >
> Implementation of various logical primitives. E.g., I use GPRS and want 
> to start pppd during the boot process (i.e., an always-on link), but 
> after the following things:
> 
> 1) /dev/ttyS0 has been created
> 2) /dev/ppp has been created
> 3) modules for line disciplines and PPP compression have been preloaded 
> (e.g. by grepping modules.alias for tty-ldisc and ppp-compress) and are 
> ready for use by pppd
> 4) firewall rules have been applied
> 
> How to "AND" these things together in a /etc/dev.d scriptlet?
and

5) /tmp is read-write
6) /var is mounted
7) log daemon is already running

but I think they can implemented with a waiting queue or other
user-space implementation.
Hmm wait, we will miss the event between udev loaded and
/var mounted and dev.d started!

ciao
	cate

PS: I hope this discussion will start project of re-thinking the
boot/init.d method.

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