[parted-devel] [PATCH] Don't fail if unable to reread partition table

[Soren Hansen]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 02:50:58PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> diff -urNad parted-1.8.8.git.2008.03.24~/libparted/arch/linux.c parted-1.8.8.git.2008.03.24/libparted/arch/linux.c
>> --- parted-1.8.8.git.2008.03.24~/libparted/arch/linux.c 2008-08-05 17:02:18.151661314 +0200
>> +++ parted-1.8.8.git.2008.03.24/libparted/arch/linux.c  2008-08-05 17:02:47.096662006 +0200
>> @@ -2454,7 +2467,7 @@
>>          int             retry_count = 5;
>>
>>          sync();
>> -        while (ioctl (arch_specific->fd, BLKRRPART)) {
>> +        while (ioctl (arch_specific->fd, BLKRRPART) || errno == EINVAL) {
>>                  retry_count--;
>>                  sync();
>>                  if (!retry_count) {
> Thanks!
> This looks like a fine change.

Thanks!

> Do you feel like adding a test to demonstrate the failure and fix?

Sure.

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Soren Hansen               | 
Virtualisation specialist  | Ubuntu Server Team
Canonical Ltd.             | http://www.ubuntu.com/
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