Re: question about raw(1)

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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
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