On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 02:21:15PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Hello! > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 01:59:23PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 01:36:01PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > > For such tests coreutils uses a helper function > > > to apply a truncated exponential backoff, > > > to run quickly in the common case, but also > > > delay longer if necessary. See retry_delay_() at: > > Thanks for the pointer! > > > > > > > http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=init.cfg;h=725ee121;hb=HEAD#l608 > > > > Andreas? (hint: send a new patch :-)) > > I fail to see how this is useful here. We either need a short delay (using > inotify) or a longer delay (not using inotify). All other steps seems > pointless to me, even harmful in non-inotify case! OK, merged. Maybe someone will provide a better solution later. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
