On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 06:00:13PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Package: usbmuxd
> Version: 1.0.8-3
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> today's upload of usbmuxd prompted me to look
> /lib/udev/rules.d/85-usbmuxd.rules which runs
> RUN+="/usr/bin/pkill -x -SIGUSR2 usbmux" whenever a new device is
> attached. The usbmuxd triggers a new device discovery whenever it
> receives that signal.
>
> Imho it would be much nicer to drop that kill invocation from the udev
> rule and make the daemon listen on hardware changes via libudev using a
> udev_monitor [0]
> 
> [0] 
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/libudev/libudev-udev-monitor.html

A patch would be quite welcome. I don't have any iOS devices to test with, and
frankly have my hands full right now dealing with libusbmuxd's split from
usbmuxd and the ABI breakage (without SONAME bump) that came from it.

*tugs hair out and headdesks*

-- 
Kind regards,
Loong Jin

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