4 Feb
2010
4 Feb
'10
10:19 p.m.
--On Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:36 AM -0600 Robert Nichols rnicholsNOSPAM@comcast.net wrote:
Looks like that's about all you can do. USB devices aren't available until hotplug discovers them, and that's proceeding in parallel with the rest of the boot sequence. Be sure to put a timeout in that loop lest it hang forever if that external device is absent.
Even better would be to make the script event-driven and launched by the hotplug process. Then there's no busy-wait.
This page has some info:
http://linux.die.net/man/8/hotplug
The detail links on this page aren't working for me but look promising: