[parted-devel] Possible Race Condition using test code, libparted, and Fedora 12

[Curtis Gedak]

After about 7.5 days, my testing of the proposed patch for parted-1.9.0 
is complete.  The patch permitted my test script to successfully 
complete all 99,999 iterations.  :-)

This patch appears to significantly reduce the chance of experiencing 
the "failure to inform kernel of partition changes" problem that happens 
with newer GNU/Linux distributions, udev, and parted.

Details about the test and the patch can be found at the following link:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604298#c22


Now some questions for the upstream maintainers of parted:

1)  Is this patch something you would consider for inclusion in parted?

2)  If yes, would you like me to re-base the patch to a specific branch 
in the git repository?

3)  If no, is there a different approach you might suggest to address 
this problem?


Regards,
Curtis Gedak