listen to udev event via a socket

[Danny Kukawka]

On Tuesday 22 November 2005 18:21, Pozsar Balazs wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is (something like) the following patch planned to be merged?

Yes, Kay already send a (this ?) patch and I think this is the next release.

Danny

> I got it from mandriva, and it works well for me. Basically, the idea is
> to listen to event arriving from udev via a socket, and not to spawn a
> process every time an event occurs. The line
>   RUN+="/usr/libexec/hal.hotplug"
> in the udev rules file should/can be replaced by:
>   RUN+="socket:/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event"
> after this patch.