[Libguestfs] [PATCH] daemon: Work around udevsettle issue (RHBZ#548121).

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 07:25:12PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >From 5c6147ecc7ee3cf657edb1e19ad5ab4e973424e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Richard Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:20:37 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] daemon: Work around udevsettle issue (RHBZ#548121).
> 
> ---
>  daemon/guestfsd.c |   30 +++++++++---------------------
>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/daemon/guestfsd.c b/daemon/guestfsd.c
> index 520a4a4..0fc0128 100644
> --- a/daemon/guestfsd.c
> +++ b/daemon/guestfsd.c
> @@ -1038,31 +1038,19 @@ device_name_translation (char *device, const char *func)
>   * involved.  eg. You can create or remove some device, but the /dev
>   * device node won't appear until some time later.  This means that
>   * you get an error if you run one command followed by another.
> + *
>   * Use 'udevadm settle' after certain commands, but don't be too
>   * fussed if it fails.
> + *
> + * 'udevsettle' was the old name for this command (RHEL 5).  This was
> + * deprecated in favour of 'udevadm settle'.  The old 'udevsettle'
> + * command was left as a symlink.  Then in Fedora 13 the old symlink
> + * remained but it stopped working (RHBZ#548121), so we have to be
> + * careful not to assume that we can use 'udevsettle' if it exists.
>   */
>  void
>  udev_settle (void)
>  {
> -  static int which_prog = 0;
> -
> -  if (which_prog == 0) {
> -    if (access ("/sbin/udevsettle", X_OK) == 0)
> -      which_prog = 2;
> -    else if (access ("/sbin/udevadm", X_OK) == 0)
> -      which_prog = 1;
> -    else
> -      which_prog = 3;
> -  }
> -
> -  switch (which_prog) {
> -  case 1:
> -    command (NULL, NULL, "/sbin/udevadm", "settle", NULL);
> -    break;
> -  case 2:
> -    command (NULL, NULL, "/sbin/udevsettle", NULL);
> -    break;
> -  default:
> -    ;
> -  }
> +  (void) command (NULL, NULL, "/sbin/udevadm", "settle", NULL);
> +  (void) command (NULL, NULL, "/sbin/udevsettle", NULL);
>  }

I verified that this fixes the original build problem on Koji, so
I'm going to push this now.

Rich.

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