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Re: [Xen-devel] /sbin/hotplug exec'd lots of times during boot

To: Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] /sbin/hotplug exec'd lots of times during boot
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 01:20:06 -0700
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* Jacob Gorm Hansen (jacobg@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> I just added a printk to do_execve() in xenolinux0, and noticed that 
> /sbin/hotplug is being exec'ed more than a hundred times during boot, 
> and that this happens before /sbin/init is exec'ed.

This sounds pretty normal for Linux.  Each kobject_add can generate a
hotplug event, and execve("/sbin/init") happens quite late during bootup.

thanks,
-chris

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