Re: Bug#345977: ITP: polld -- Polling demon

[Roger Leigh <rleigh@whinlatter.ukfsn.org>]

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Michal Čihař <michal@cihar.com> writes:

> This demon periodically opens devices (files) listed in configuration.
> Main reason is to force rescanning of partitions on usb devices while
> using udev.

What is the problem this is trying to solve?

If the partition table is being changed, the tool that changed it
should issue a BLKRRPART ioctl, like fdisk does for example (see
<linux/fs.h>).


Regards,
Roger

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