Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Race between "mount" uevent and /proc/mounts? | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:45:32 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 16:34, Kay Sievers wrote:
> They are actually events for claim/release of a block device. As uevents > are bound to kobjects we needed to send these events from an existing device > which is the blockdev itself. > > Sure, the event itself, has nothing to do with a filesystem. The names are > like this for historical reasons and "CLAIM/RELEASE" may be less confusing. > The events are used as a trigger to rescan /proc/mounts instead of polling > it constantly. > > If you have a better idea where to plug it, or if we better rename it, we > should do that...
Make /proc/mount send an inotify event ?
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