Re: [PATCH] fdisk doing useless ioctl when editing an image

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On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 12:10:16AM +0200, Pascal Terjan wrote:
> When editing a disk image, fdisk wants to ask the kernel to reread the
> partition table which is useless and provokes an error, a wrong exit
> code and some waiting. This annoys me as I can't check the return code
> in my script and because I have to wait a few seconds each time.
> 
> This trivial patch makes it only do the ioctl on block devices.
> 
> It also simplifies code by dropping some workaround for kernel 1.2.x

 Applied, thanks a lot.

    Karel

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 Karel Zak  <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
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