On Sat, 28 Mar 2015, Jude Nelson wrote:
> It's not ready yet--it's not yet ABI-compatible with libudev (but it is
> API-compatible--Kay Sievers' tests pass when recompiled).
ACK
> Some background for the rest of the list.* I've managed to extract
> the required variables, macros, and headers from systemd 219 to
> make libudev compile independently of systemd.* I intend to
> maintain a fork of libudev called libudev-compat that will remain
> ABI-compatible with systemd's libudev, but will allow programs that
> depend on libudev to work without udevd.*
sounds great. libudev-compat is the last thing standing to remove
systemd packages completely AFAIK
> Specifically, I intend to rewrite the udev_monitor implementation
> to use inotify(2) to watch /dev and propagate device events to
> listeners, instead of connecting to udevd to listen for udevd's
> events.*
clever approach which puts the filesystem back as authoritative source
for events and the permissions on files in /dev as the ACL for them
> As a result, users will be able to select whatever device
> management daemon they want without breaking other programs.* Even
> static /dev will be supported, in which case device events will
> only be propagated when the admin creates the device file itself.
That's what we want. Freedom!
cheers
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Re: [Dng] libudev-compat
