Recently I have noticed a new need arise on the parted mailing lists.
This is the need for a "wait_for_dev_to_appear" feature.
Would it be prudent to add this functionality to libparted?
If not, then the users (scripts and programs) of parted and libparted
will need to duplicate this functionality.
With parted-1.8.8 and earlier, there did not seem to be a need for this
feature. After commit_to_os() was called, both the kernel and the
device entries would reflect the changes to the partition table. It is
possible that this was a side effect of the commit_to_os() function.
Perhaps this would be a good candidate location to include the
"wait_for_dev_to_appear" check?
Following are the posts that identify the need for "wait_for_dev_to_appear":
How best to wait for partition table kernel reload?
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2010-06/msg00006.html
[PATCH 3/3] tests: update resize-fs to use wait_for_dev_to_appear_
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2010-June/003702.html
Regards,
Curtis Gedak
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