Re: [Xen-devel] /sbin/hotplug exec'd lots of times during boot

[Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@xxxxxxx>]

Chris Wright wrote:
> * Jacob Gorm Hansen (jacobg@xxxxxxx) wrote:
>
> > I just added a printk to do_execve() in xenolinux0, and noticed that 
> > /sbin/hotplug is being exec'ed more than a hundred times during boot, 
> > and that this happens before /sbin/init is exec'ed.
>
> This sounds pretty normal for Linux.  Each kobject_add can generate a
> hotplug event, and execve("/sbin/init") happens quite late during bootup.
No wonder it is slow to boot then ;-) ... How can one be sure that the 
/sbin/hotplugs are no longer running when /sbin/init runs, i.e. that 
init has pid==1? Are there no forks allowed in /sbin/hotplug?
thanks,
Jacob

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