On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Harald Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11.03.2015 16:34, Laurent Bercot wrote: >> >> On 11/03/2015 14:02, Denys Vlasenko wrote: >>> >>> But that nldev process will exist for all time, right? That's not >>> elegant. >>> Ideally, this respawning logic should be in the kernel. >> > ... >> >> Needing daemons to answer notifications from userspace processes >> or the kernel is the Unix way. It's not Hurd's, it's not Plan 9's >> (AFAIK), but it's what we have, and it's not even that ugly. The >> listening and spawning logic will have to be somewhere anyway, so >> why not userspace ? Userspace memory is cheaper (because it can >> be swapped), userspace processes are safer, and processes are not >> a scarce resource. > > And what is wrong with a long lived daemon?
I find it suboptimal to have, say, a hotplug daemon lingering in the system five hours after the last hotplug event happened. _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
