Re: hotplug script before udev

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 08:13:46 -0600 "David Berg" <drberg1000@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> > On 3/9/06, Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> >
> > > David Berg wrote:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > >
> > > > Correct me if I'm mistaken, being that PROGRAM is a _key_ it is
> > > > run before the device is created so that it can be used to
> > > > determine which name should be used.  Since it is run before
> > > > the device is created, it can't be used to mount a filesystem
> > > > on that device.

[...]

> just a quick thought. is it possible that udev doesn't actually
> process everything on the one line as suggested by Florian? Maybe it
> only processes one item at a time until it satisfies the rule and
> thus, your PROGRAM at the end of the line doesn't ever actually run
> as the other keys satisfy and generate the device. Also, its my
> understanding that the PROGRAM is just like any other key and udev is
> expecting it to return a value to help udev determine what devices to
> create.

Uh-oh, I just checked again and I was indeed wrong about the PROGRAM
key. I mixed it up with the RUN key which unfortunately does not seem to
be implemented in udev 0.056. Sorry for adding to the confusion...

Regards,
          Florian