Hey everyone, I promise, I'm not dead :) I've been working on vdev off and on over the past couple months as time permitted, but I haven't had anything interesting to report here (mostly bug fixes, which are tracked on the project's Github [1]). This past week I've been able to spend more time on vdev, now that my major event for $WORK has come and gone.
I'm pleased to announce the availability of eventfs [2], the final piece of software required to replace udev. Eventfs is a specialized userspace filesystem that replaces the udev-to-libudev event multicast protocol, which is currently based on netlink but will soon be based on kdbus. Eventfs fulfills an equivalent role, but it does so in a portable manner in userspace, and it abstracts dealing with message multicast groups as dealing with files and directories with a few extra rules [3]. I'm going to migrate my production machine to using eventfs with libudev-compat this weekend. Once I'm satisfied that it works as expected, I'll begin packaging all of vdev's components for Devuan. Questions, comments, and feedback are all welcome :) Thanks, Jude [1] https://github.com/jcnelson/vdev [2] https://github.com/jcnelson/eventfs [3] https://github.com/jcnelson/eventfs/blob/master/README.md
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