Submitted By: Zack Winkles <winkie AT linuxfromscratch DOT org>
Date: 2004-06-18
Initial Package Version: 027
Origin: N/A
Upstream Status: Not submitted
Description: udevd(8) needs to be started manually in order to avoid a race
	condition with reference to udevsend.  It does not fork into the
	background though, so it's somewhat abnormal.  This patch causes it
	to fork into the background immediately before it goes into the main
	loop.

diff -Naur udev-027.orig/udevd.c udev-027/udevd.c
--- udev-027.orig/udevd.c	2004-06-14 16:38:34.000000000 -0400
+++ udev-027/udevd.c	2004-06-18 14:23:27.800644688 -0400
@@ -398,6 +398,7 @@
 	int retval;
 	const int on = 1;
 	struct sigaction act;
+	pid_t pid;
 	fd_set readfds;
 
 	init_logging("udevd");
@@ -465,6 +466,16 @@
 	else
 		udev_bin = UDEV_BIN;
 
+	/* fork into the background */
+	switch (pid = fork()) {
+		case 0:
+			/* child */
+			break;
+		default:
+			/* parent */
+			exit (0);
+	}
+
 	FD_ZERO(&readfds);
 	FD_SET(ssock, &readfds);
 	FD_SET(pipefds[0], &readfds);