Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751036AbWBSUpO (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:45:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751049AbWBSUpO (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:45:14 -0500 Received: from mail1.kontent.de ([81.88.34.36]:28357 "EHLO Mail1.KONTENT.De") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751036AbWBSUpM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:45:12 -0500 From: Oliver Neukum To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Flames over -- Re: Which is simpler? Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:44:57 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: Alan Stern , psusi@cfl.rr.com, pavel@suse.cz, torvalds@osdl.org, mrmacman_g4@mac.com, alon.barlev@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.osdl.org References: <43F89F55.5070808@cfl.rr.com> <20060219120221.1d11cee0.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060219120221.1d11cee0.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602192144.57748.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 741 Lines: 16 Am Sonntag, 19. Februar 2006 21:02 schrieb Andrew Morton: > For a), the current kernel behaviour is what we want - make the thing > appear at a new place in the namespace and in the hierarchy. ?Then > userspace can do whatever needs to be done to identify the device, and > apply some sort of policy decision to the result. How? If you have a running user space the connection to the open files is already severed, as any access in that time window must fail. For the rest we have udev. Oliver - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/