From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 17:20:21 +0000 Subject: Re: Hotplug events vs proc - timing Message-Id: <20040602172021.GA12139@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <40BCD9C6.1040909@cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: <40BCD9C6.1040909@cornell.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel