More comments, which I forgot On Saturday 07 March 2009 22:49:51 David Haller wrote:
Aye. Udev.
By the way, I don't think udev will ever remove anything
Josef, could you please mail the output of:
grep null /lib/udev/rules.d/* /etc/udev/rules.d/*
Maybe you have something weird there.
udev reacts to kernel events. A user can't normally trigger a kernel event to create the null device, it's hard coded in the kernel.
-dnh, yet another reason for disliking automatisms in general and the whole udev, hal and dbus mishmash in particular.
udev used to be a chaotic mess, but it's become a lot better in recent times hal, well, it makes sense to have some sort of abstraction layer for hardware. I don't know enough about other OSes to be able to comment on the alternatives, but there has to be something. I don't think dbus comes into it at all. It is an IPC system Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org