[PATCH ]Re: hal doesn't recognize mounting of devices

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Tue Oct 25 08:01:36 PDT 2005


On Tuesday 25 October 2005 16:07, you wrote:
> Thanks for the patch.  I had to bump the delay to 0.3 seconds to get
> everything to reliably mount and unmount on my machines.  Other than
> that it works as expected.
>
> I was wondering if this wouldn't be the perfect place to use inotify.
> Setup an inotify watch on /proc/mounts and block until we get the write
> finished event.  Just a thought.

IMO this is only a *workaround* and I wouldn't implement more than needed for 
the workaround. This is a bug in the kernel and should be fixed there.

Cheers,

Danny


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