Question on mdev's custom command invocation

Didier Kryn kryn at in2p3.fr
Thu Nov 17 10:02:37 UTC 2016


Le 16/11/2016 18:37, Olivier Brunel a écrit :
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:27:12 +0100
> Didier Kryn<kryn at in2p3.fr>  wrote:
>
>> >      Hello.
>> >
>> >      I'm willing to create/delete symlinks in /dev/disk/by-uuid and
>> >/dev/disk/by-label . For this, I've written a script and added the
>> >following lines to /etc/mdev.conf:
>> >sd[a-z][0-9]*   root:disk 660 */sbin/mdev-disk
>> >hd[a-z][0-9]*   root:disk 660 */sbin/mdev-disk
>> >
>> >      Note that I use /dev/mdev.seq to serialize events.
>> >
>> >      Is there a means for my script mdev-disk to determine if the
>> >device is being inserted or extracted? For example it would be easy
>> >if mdev provided the uevent's action (add, remove)
> I'm assuming you already use environment variables in your script,
> e.g. $MDEV, $SEQNUM, etc Maybe you missed $ACTION, sounds like what
> you're looking for.

     Good to know that; 
https://git.busybox.net/busybox/plain/docs/mdev.txt only mentions $MDEV .

     Thanks a lot.
                             Didier



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