[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#451916: Bug#451916: cryptsetup: loopback device not detached after "/etc/init.d/cryptdisks stop"

[Jonas Meurer]

On 19/11/2007 Rene Pavlik wrote:
> There is a not correctly working routine in the mentioned script to handle
> detaching of loopback devices. After stopping, the device /dev/loopX is still
> being assigned to the file. Next start of the init script allocates another
> loopback device.

Hey Rene,

Do you mean the case where cryptsetup device setup fails? In this case
indeed the loopback device is left alone without being removed. I fixed
that in svn now.

Or do you mean the regular use case when you successfully setup a file
as cryptsetup device?

greetings,
 jonas