Re: [PATCH] losetup: handle symlinks in /dev/loop/

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On Monday 11 May 2009 00:04:01 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Sunday 10 May 2009 19:36:59 Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 22:57, Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > The loop_scandir() expects all the files in /dev/loop/ to be actual
> > > devices and not symlinks to devices.  However, udev by default sets up
> > > symlinks in /dev/loop/ thereby breaking the fallback scan logic when
> > > looking for devices more than the default number of 8.
> >
> > Just a note, udev does not do that by default. It is devfs-nonsense,
> > which the "default" never did.
>
> you say devfs garbage but i'm pretty sure that was how the devices were
> always named before devfs ...

err, sorry, i thought you were talking about /dev/loop# and not /dev/loop/#
-mike

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