Curtis Gedak wrote: > 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?
Thanks for bringing this up. I suppose this could be due to changes in udev, the kernel, or parted, but if someone can investigate/fix it in parted (cleanly and without too much cost), I would welcome the contribution. I won't have much time for parted in the next two months. > 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 _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
