We need to preserve the database of network interfaces while we
rename them. Use the kernel's numbers wherever possible, instead
of the device names.
Fix wrong database filenames which contain a '/', translated
from '!' in the kernel name.
Fix segfault for kobject pathes where the subsystem can not be
determined from sysfs.
Dates aren't shown in the manpages. So they are not really useful,
and no-one is going to remember to update them.
"<refmiscinfo class="version"></refmiscinfo>" sounds even less useful.
I leave the unused "title" and "productname" tags. They could
theoretically be useful, and aren't hard to maintain. We just need to
fix the "title" for udevadm.
Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Event processes now get re-used after they handled an event. This reduces
pressure on the CPU significantly because cloned event processes no longer
cause page faults in the main daemon. After the events have settled, the
no longer needed worker processes get killed.
Since a while we change the database with a "test" run, but do not update
the node and symlinks. We need to "force" all the time, to keep things
in sync.
This was needed in the old days, where all the hotplug scripts did
nothing better than sleep for seconds to work around timing issues.
It made sure, that w continued to fork processes, while the machine
was doing nothing than sleeping, but the maximim number of childs
was already reached. This is no longer needed today, we do not run
many of these scripts anymore.
