On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Harald Hoyer <harald@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kay Sievers wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Harald Hoyer <harald@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 :) Applied. Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
