[systemd-devel] Again, why this strange behavior implied by "auto" in fstab ?

[Andrei Borzenkov]

24.01.2018 17:13, Lennart Poettering пишет:
> On Mi, 24.01.18 14:51, Thomas Blume (Thomas.Blume at suse.com) wrote:
> 
>> Would this be an acceptable approach?
> 
> Since a long time there has been a proper API for this: just take a
> BSD file lock on the device node and udev won't bother with the
> device anymore. As soon as you close the device fully (and thus also
> lost all locks), udev will notice and then reprobe it again.
> 

How exactly is udev relevant here? This discussion has nothing to do
with udev.

> It's a bit underdocumented, but it's the right way, doesn't leave
> artifacts in the system around and uses the appropriate OS primitives
> for what it needs to do.
> 
> If you need this in shell, then I figure util-linux' flock tool should
> be something you can make work, as it appears to be a command line
> wrapper around BSD file locks.
> 

> Lennart
>