Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Wed, 27 May 2009 11:24:38 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 25/20] sysfs: Only support removing emtpy sysfs directories. |
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Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> writes:
> > As fas as I know, they can't. Instead, they can cause the SCSI layer > to unregister a sysfs directory containing a child directory. :-) > > Basically, a user program can delay removal of the child (i.e., the > target) directory indefinitely, because currently the target isn't > unregistered when all its children are removed -- it's unregistered > when all its children are _released_.
Ok. Is this opens of /dev/sda1 and the like that are being held open by userspace that are potentially causing problems?
I think I have the fix to that...
Eric
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