On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > > On Sep 10, 2011 11:22 PM, "Michael Mol" <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> As I understand it, nothing of udev itself is in /usr, but instead >> packages and scripts which plug themselves into udev to be triggered >> by various events. >> >> Perhaps the real solution is to circumvent udev and get those other >> packages and scripts to not put hotplug-active files under /usr. >> > > Agree with both your points. > > udev *should* refuse accessing anything under /usr if it's still in the > sysinit phase. After all, that's what the FHS assumed (/usr does not contain > anything required during boot) > > IIRC, one of the most vocal designer of the FHS is Red Hat; if the dev of > udev is also Red Hat-related, shouldn't he at least try to follow FHS's > philosophy?
In Portage, we have all kinds of warnings and QA notices pop up when building things. Could we patch udev to throw warnings when files under /usr are accessed? (such as by hooking in via strace and grepping for fopen() calls) -- :wq
