Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com> wrote:
>> We have a customer, who misses some symlinks for some of his scsi devices.
>> Because of limited access and debugging facilities, I could only guess a
>> fix.
>>
>> The first patch retries opening the scsi device, if it is EBUSY.
>> The second patch serializes access with flock.
>>
>> With these patches it seems to work. I don't know if the flock patch is
>> really necessary. Any help and comments appreciated.
> 
>> -       fd = open(devname, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK);
>> +       while (((fd = open(devname, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK)) != 0) && (cnt >
> 
> What is open() != 0 doing? I guess you want < 0?

errr... yes :)

> 
>> +       strncpy(flock_path, "/sys/", MAX_PATH_LEN-1);
>> +       strncat(flock_path, devpath, MAX_PATH_LEN-1);
> 
> Current scsi_id has no idea about sysfs anymore. I guess, we should
> try if the retry patch is enough.
> 
> Kay

if not, we could flock s.th. like  "/dev/.udev/tmp_" + major + minor