From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hotplug events vs proc - timing
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 17:20:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040602172021.GA12139@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40BCD9C6.1040909@cornell.edu>
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 01:32:22PM -0600, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> Fedora's updfstab tool (part of kudzu) is trigged by hotplug to
> add/remove things from fstab, such as my Fujifilm Digital Camera
> (usb-storage, scsi emulation). However... it reads /proc/scsi/scsi, and
> doesn't work as it should because it's triggered before /proc/scsi/scsi
> is updated most of the time. Where is the bug, and how should this race
> be corrected?
The race should be fixed by having the hotplug script wait around for
the proc file to show up.
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-02 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-01 19:32 Hotplug events vs proc - timing Ivan Gyurdiev
2004-06-02 17:20 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-06-02 17:36 ` Bill Nottingham
2004-06-02 17:41 ` Greg KH
2004-06-02 17:57 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2004-06-02 18:05 ` Greg KH
2004-06-02 23:19 ` Ivan Gyurdiev
2004-06-03 8:30 ` Harald Hoyer
2004-06-03 16:54 ` Greg KH
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