From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>, Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>,
Roderich.Schupp.extern@mch.siemens.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Race between "mount" uevent and /proc/mounts?
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:45:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1130337932.3340.1.camel@capoeira> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051026143417.GA18949@vrfy.org>
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 16:34, Kay Sievers wrote:
> They are actually events for claim/release of a block device. As uevents
> are bound to kobjects we needed to send these events from an existing device
> which is the blockdev itself.
>
> Sure, the event itself, has nothing to do with a filesystem. The names are
> like this for historical reasons and "CLAIM/RELEASE" may be less confusing.
> The events are used as a trigger to rescan /proc/mounts instead of polling
> it constantly.
>
> If you have a better idea where to plug it, or if we better rename it, we
> should do that...
Make /proc/mount send an inotify event ?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-26 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <0AD07C7729CA42458B22AFA9C72E7011C8EF@mhha22kc.mchh.siemens.de>
[not found] ` <20051025140041.GO7992@ftp.linux.org.uk>
2005-10-26 10:27 ` Race between "mount" uevent and /proc/mounts? Sergey Vlasov
2005-10-26 11:15 ` Al Viro
2005-10-26 14:34 ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-26 14:45 ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
2005-10-26 19:28 ` Al Viro
2005-11-01 0:28 ` Kay Sievers
2005-11-01 3:58 ` Kay Sievers
2005-11-01 19:54 ` Sergey Vlasov
2005-11-01 21:35 ` Kay Sievers
2005-11-02 13:01 ` Sergey Vlasov
2005-11-03 8:07 ` Al Viro
2005-11-03 10:52 ` Sergey Vlasov
2005-11-03 11:30 ` Al Viro
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