[BRLTTY] 5.4 has been released.

Mario Lang mlang at delysid.org
Wed Jun 29 11:03:55 EDT 2016


Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> writes:

> [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2016/06/29 at 13:50 +0200]
>
>>I believe that it's on purpose that udev kills the cgroup, and you are
>>not supposed to escape from it. AIUI, you need to determine how to tell
>>udev that the start was successful, and thus it shouldn't try to clean
>>after start failure.
>
> I don't see any reference for how to do that. From the description for RUN 
> within my udev's man page:
>
>   Starting daemons or other long running processes is not appropriate
>   for udev; the forked processes, detached or not, will be
>   unconditionally killed after the event handling has finished.
>
> This reminds me of the same kind of "we know best" thinking that the Pulse 
> Audio people display when it comes to making sounds from root. :-( I bet they 
> want to force everyone onto Systemd.

Yes, they do.  As far as I know, long running processes via udev can now
only be started by the SYSTEMD_WANTS thing.  I guess the old udev
behaviour is only working on old systems.  Remember, these days, udev is
part of systemd.

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