start_udev and network

[Bernardo Innocenti]

Harald Hoyer wrote:
> redhat at olen.net wrote:

>> And there it hangs until i ^C "udev_start".
>> (Ofcourse start_udev can't access the network so early in the boot
>> process).
> 
> grrr... this seems to be glibc and getpwnam(3)

I also have a (perhaps unrelated) issue with udev_start
hanging at boot time until I hit ^C.

Running it with strace revealed that a subprocess
spawned by udev_start tries to log through syslog
to complain about a missing environment variable:

 Sep 22 02:38:31 beetle hal.hotplug[17028]: SEQNUM is not set


As a sidenote, I've always found the way processes hang
when syslogd isn't running extremely annoying.  Is this
a bug in glibc's implementation of syslog(2) or this behavior
by design?

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