[systemd-devel] Renaming network interfaces: device or resource busy

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 30.09.13 17:42, Thomas Bächler (thomas at archlinux.org) wrote:

> Any application that listens on netlink for new network interfaces may
> start using the interface before udev has finished processing the uevent.
> 
> IMO, this needs to be fixed in the kernel and udev, so that udev can
> have a chance to finish its uevent processing before the interface is
> announced via netlink. As far as I know, no work in that direction has
> been done.

No, applications should not pick up network devices before udev
announced them. They should ignore netlink traffic before
that. NetworkManager actually gets that right...

Lennart

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