Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Merge NBD client/server int qemu-nbd

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Laurent Vivier wrote:
> Le samedi 14 juin 2008 à 12:35 -0700, Avi Kivity a écrit :
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>> Laurent Vivier wrote:
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>>>> It is udev that creates the devices, based on events it receives from 
>>>> the kernel.  Calling udevsettle after the kernel instructs udev to 
>>>> create the device files will wait until they are actually created.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Yes, I agree but the kernel events are generated by the open(), so I
>>> think I can't use this to know if I can use open(). 
>>>
>>> I've used udevmonitor to see what happen:
>>> - without open() -> no events
>>> - whith open() whithout sleep() -> no events
>>> -> open() + sleep() -> events generated by the partition creation.
>>>
>>> So, what do I miss ?
>>>   
>>>       
>> For this, it seems like sleep() generates the events, which is a little 
>> unlikely.  I suggest re-checking this.
>>     
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> re-checked, no events with sleep() only.
>
> events generated with sleep() + open() are:
>   

I imagine the sleep() is causing another task to be scheduled (probably 
the server) which is what ends up generating the event.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori