[systemd-devel] udev leaves dangling symlinks

Mantas Mikulėnas grawity at gmail.com
Thu Apr 16 12:51:50 PDT 2015


So recently I noticed that udev no longer deletes /dev symlinks for removed
devices, leaving quite a few dangling links over time (and greatly
confusing udisks as a side effect). This was broken by:

commit 3c0bab4aaf70b2383aa4cbabf6059c48744e8960
Author: Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no>
Date:   Fri Mar 6 18:22:35 2015 +0100

    udevd: event - make db loading lazy in REMOVE event handling

But udev_node_remove() needs the DB to know about symlinks, so…

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Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>
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