Designing a new init: low level communication

Erich Schubert erich.schubert at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 14:37:48 UTC 2005


Hi,
> You can pretty much keep trying to open /dev/unix_socket after execution
> of each script until it works, it'll add a TINY bit of overhead, but..
> not much really, trying to open it 1-5-10 times wont really make much
> difference.

Won't the unix socket be hidden by udev mounting a tmpfs over /dev?
In that case either init must do some busy spinning, too, or we need
to have udev signal init to recreate its socket.

best regards,
Erich Schubert
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