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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
CC: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> A heck of a lot of things can trigger an /sbin/hotplug run.  It could well
> be that Andrew's driver didn't want to run hotplug at all, but the kernel
> did it anwyay.  But as soon as the script appeared at /sbin/hotplug, and it
> happened to use foo|bar: boom.

In fact, <many> things run /sbin/hotplug but don't necessarily need to :/

I think bcrl used a counter one time, and saw over 1000 /sbin/hotplug 
executions during a single boot.

	Jeff


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