Re: udev remove event not sent untill the device is closed

[Thomas Stewart <thomas@stewarts.org.uk>]

On Friday 01 October 2004 18:53, you wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:52:36PM +0100, Thomas Stewart wrote:
> > However, if I attach the device, open it with say a "cat /dev/ttyUSB0"
> > and then remove the device. No tty events get sent untill I kill the cat.
>
> This is because the tty device remains until the last userspace process
> releases the device.  You might want to trigger your script off of the
> removal of the USB device instead.

I tried that method instead and it works. Now that I think about it more it 
does make more sense.

For anyone else doing something similar this is what I ended up with 
http://www.stewarts.org.uk/stuff/ttyUSB.hotplug not exactly elegant but it 
works.

Thanks
-- 
Tom

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