On Sunday 21 October 2001 06:36, Alain Knaff wrote:
(snip)
> Nick LeRoy wrote:
> >Perhaps there should be a pair of "mtools" added: mopen and mclose, that
> > do basically this. That way it could be a "standard" item, documented in
> > man pages, etc., not some secret that only the l-k users know. Thoughts?
>
> A nice workaround. However, personnally I'd rather have this fixed in
> the kernel, rather than having to resort to those kinds of
> workarounds. Moreover, this is potentially dangerous: it could
> actually mask a real disk change, if the user forgets the mclose. The
> same holds for other techniques, such as sleep 3600 </dev/fd0 & Btw,
> it works now (actual disk change detected, even while the sleep runs),
> but who will guarantee it still will work in 2.6 ?
>
> Nevertheless, I'm thinking about introducing this to mtools as a
> stop-gap measure, but with ample warnings in the manpage...
Absolutely... I *would not* advocate this as a real fix if we can, in
general, get the interrupt to work... I would advocate a *real* fix in the
kernel, and this using mopen/mclose for broken hardware & kernels that don't
handle it as gracefully.
-Nick
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