From: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
To: Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@gmx.de>, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: "Dale R. Worley" <worley@alum.mit.edu>, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about raw(1)
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 02:30:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <577EF423.7060703@bernhard-voelker.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201607080101.35139.sweet_f_a@gmx.de>
On 07/08/2016 01:01 AM, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> It's about this openSUSE init script pull request
> https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/405725
>
> He removed the existing "sleep 2" after modprobe but I guess somebody
> had added that sleep for a good reason in past. Of course sleep is
> ugly, maybe "udevadm settle" would work too!? I simply don't know if
> udev or sleep would have any affect here at all. When testing locally
> the thing always works without any sleep. But this may not mean
> anything (as I've learned from ul test suite issues).
maybe use timeout(1) instead of waiting the full 2 seconds?
timeout 2 sh -c 'while [ ! -e /dev/raw/$rawdev ]; do sleep .1; done'
Still pretty ugly, but performs better. ;-)
Have a nice day,
Berny
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-08 0:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-04 13:39 question about raw(1) Ruediger Meier
2016-07-05 18:32 ` Dale R. Worley
2016-07-07 20:27 ` Karel Zak
2016-07-07 23:01 ` Ruediger Meier
2016-07-08 0:30 ` Bernhard Voelker [this message]
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