udev and proc files

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Sat Oct 16 18:39:08 UTC 2004


On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 07:26:04PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> A copy of bash which is spawned by udev attempts an ioctl access 
> to /proc/ide/ide0/hda/media.  This access doesn't do any harm, but possibly 
> indicates some other problem, is bash supposed to be accessing that file?

Probably not. Can you see if udev passed it to bash as fd 0, 1 or 2? This
file is also btw likely to be going away soon

Alan




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